“I write so that my handful of pebbles, cast daily into still waters, will produce a ripple. ”

“When casting pebbles into water, look at the ripples being formed thereby. Otherwise this activity will be an empty amusement.”

“The ripple effect. You throw a pebble into the water and it creates ripples. Your action was to throw the pebble—the representation of your choice. That’s all that you can control. But not the ripples—those are the consequences of your choice. And that you cannot control.”

“It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.”

“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”

“When you drop a pebble into a pond, ripples spread out, changing all the water in the pool. The ripples hit the shore and rebound, bumping into one another, breaking each other apart. In some small way, the pond is never the same again.”