A kiss is like singing into someone's mouth.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.

Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.

The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves.

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

For an adventurous life, seek not security. Dance with uncertainty to create magnificence and beauty.

We attract others with our persistent thoughts and our attractive power of love.

Dating isn't a natural need

The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there.

Cicero's words also increased my personal satisfaction by supporting my long-standing rejection of a conventional point of view.

Lie not down wearied 'neath Woe's weeping willow; work with a stout heart and resolute will.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.

I know many members of our community steer clear of Wall Street because of the perception that the stock market is risky, but I am convinced the biggest risk of all is not taking one.

The Paralympians have lifted the cloud of limitation.

Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.