“Good instincts tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.” ~Michael Burke

“Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.” ~Annette Funicello

“I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.” ~Charles de Lint “Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.” ~Charles de Lint

“Emptiness is the only thing one will understand in one’s precious era of life, which depends upon his level of mentality…If he finds out it in his last moment of his life still he is luckier than who will never be able to understand it in the whole life!” ~Nishi De Silva

 5 October 2009 Waikatu River Taupo, New Zealand “True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.” ~Edward F. Halifax

“The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up.” ~Max Muller

“The world is whole beyond human knowing.” ~Wendell Berry

“First sentences are doors to worlds.” ~Ursula K. LeGuin

“Words are all we have.” ~Samuel Beckett

“Writing is the supreme solace.” ~Somerset Maugham