“You see much more of your children once they leave home.”

“If women’s role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.”

“It is normally possible to be much more certain who your children are than who your brothers are. And you can be more certain still who you yourself are!”

“You don't have to look back to see those children; part of your mind will see them forever. They are not necessarily the best part of you, but they were once the repository of all you could become.”

“Every day when you leave your home you give away more than you could ever imagine about who you are and what you do.”

“traveling - it gives you home in thousand strange places, then leaves you a stranger in your own land.”

“Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.”

“If you gaze at a single leaf on a single tree, you do not see the other leaves. If you face the tree with no intention and do not fix your eyes on a single leaf, then you will see all the many leaves. If your mind is preoccupied with one leaf, you do not see the others, if you do not set your attention on one; you will see hundreds and thousands of leaves.”

“Toy balloon
once kidnapped by the wind —
come home, and I will say:
There are no children here.”

“Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be better off. Then they will leave. You'll miss them forever.”