“Nothing important is completely explicable.”

“Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.”

“It is not always on the great or the important that the balance of the universe depends.”

“It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important. ”

“You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.”

“A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.”

“She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.”