A dog is grateful for what is, which I am finding to be the soundest kind of wisdom and very good theology.

If I could turn down the noise of my own will and choiceI could hear the truth of my life in a clear voice. I will bow down my head to the wisdom of my heart.

Never doubt or question the power of love or one woman with a shovel.

Sometimes you just close your eyes and jump... you don't think too long or maybe you just won't. Sometimes you just follow your heart, don't analyze too long, or maybe it might just be gone.

There's a spiritual current in my work because there's a spiritual current in my life.

There are some questions, there are some answers, the simple ones, the most important ones, that cannot be approached or even seen, until we go out looking for something else entirely.

But miracles do happen, every shining now and then. If not now, if not now, tell me when. From "If Not Now

What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.

It is a fact that one man can be deliriously happy in the exact situation that causes another man to wither from depression.

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us!

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

These days the nights and mornings have a tendency to bleed into one another.

Man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling immensity, out of which he emerged only by chance.

As a kid, image played a huge part. I'm sure most kids find the image of the guitarist exciting.

Eggnog reminds me of mucus." "Me, too. But in a good way.

Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.

Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.