A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order - willed, faked, and so brought into being.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.

At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body.

The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

Education is a relentless voyage of discovery.

It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half.

Passion is good, but Pros have purpose and realism.

Life is fragile, handle with prayer.

Nevertheless, he had, on a certain star-lit evening, said wonderingly and quite reverently: "Deh moon looks like hell, don't it?

The man who suspects his own tediousness has yet to be born.

I can feel that the world this day is different than all the days of our lives before.

I profoundly believe that the power of food has a primal place in our homes that binds us to the best bits of life.

There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

The pressure to be timely with news has increased every year.