Everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are, there's not going to be anything to apologize about.
The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something by being nothing
It's morning, and again I am that lucky person who is in it.
And I say to my heart: rave on.
Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.
So every day So every day I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth of the ideas of God, one of which was you.
Look, I want to love this world as though it's the last chance I'm ever going to get to be alive and know it.
Father of fathers, make me one, A fit example for a son.
I want to live the next chapter in my life without my lips as my defining characteristic.
African agriculture today is among, or is, the most under-capitalized in the world. Only seven percent of arable land in Africa is irrigated, compared to 40 percent in Asia.
Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways. [Fr. , Coups de fourches ni d'etriveres, Ne lui font changer de manieres. ]