Good Riddles

Question: These are the three lives of mine:
So gentle I soothe the skin,
So light I caress the sky,
So hard I crack rocks.

What am I?

Question: If 1+9+8=1, what is 2+8+9?

Question: First think of a person who lives in disguise,
who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies.
Next tell me what is always the last thing to mend,
the middle of middle the end of the end?
And finally give me a sound often heard during the search of a hard-to-find word.
Now string them together and answer me this,
which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?

Question: I have no wings but I fly,
I have no teeth but I bite.

What am I?

Question: Why does the second shape have an open block when the first shape does not?