You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

You are free and that is why you are lost.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward.

'I wish I had been born a bird instead,' he said. 'I wish we had all been born birds instead.'

A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast, And fills the white and rustling sail, And bends the gallant mast. And bends the gallant mast, my boys…

There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.