“As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.”

“If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.”

“Care not who is richer or more learned than thou, if none be more generous and loving.”

“The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is”

“Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.”

“We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.”

“I've nursed a lifelong love affair with movement, straying ever farther from those I love most. But somewhere along the way, it dawned on me that I was always traveling with family - because the act of travel, to the extent that it separates us from our relatives, also extends, manifests, multiplies, and completes family.”