There is only one real deprivation… and that is not to be able to give one’s gifts to those one loves most.
The Fur Person learned then and there that it is better to be a philosopher than to be a king and that, all things considered, wisdom was to be preferred to power.
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.
I am not ready to die,But I am learning to trust deathAs I have trusted life.I am movingToward a new freedom
Where music thundered let the mind be still,Where the will triumphed let there be no will,What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill.