“If you trust yourself, any choice you make will be correct. If you do not trust yourself, anything you do will be wrong.- Kung Fu, The Legend Continues -”

“If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.”

“If you can not be a poet, be the poem.”

“Is that not the perfect visual image of life and death? A fish flapping on the carpet, and a fish not flapping on the carpet. So powerful even a five-year old child with no concept of life and death knew what it meant. Not only did she know Emilio was dead, she knew she had killed him. So she comes running into my room, holding Emilio in both of her little hands - it was so cute - and she wanted me to make Emilio better. And I asked her, why did she step on Emilio? And she said, she didn't know. But I knew why. You didn't mean to hurt Emilio, you just wanted to see what would happen if you stepped on him, right?”

“You have to trust the words. They do not create anything more than themselves.”

“The foundation of adult trust is not "You will never hurt me." It is "I trust myself with whatever you do.”

“Trust others to do the right thing. If you can't do that, trust yourself to survive what happens.”