The spark of consciousness is reflected in the river, where a dance of infinite faces lined in profane lights.

No child should ever be too sad to play.

I am who I am because the tears of my past have watered the magnificence of my present.

The amusements of life, he argued, should be accepted with the same philosophy as its ills. ("The Striding Place")

We will be able to depart this life with the quiet peace-giving notion, that we were permitted to contribute to the happiness of many who will live after us. In our long lives we endeavored to unfold the collective consciousness. In our lives we have known hell and heaven; the final balance, however, is that we helped pave the way to dynamic harmony in this earthly house. That, I believe, is the meaning of life.

There were happy days, with watermelon, and sad days of whiskey.