To reach back and help, and expect neither reward nor even thanks. To reach back and help, because that is what spiritual beings do.
Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.
. . . preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).
To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Only we should not be influenced by the winds.
Critical sobriety is out of the question so long as this master of terror-in-the-commonplace exerts his spell.
Don't allow anyone to steal your joy.