Adverbs are a sign that you've used the wrong verb.

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.

The difference in the quality of life between people can be found in the quality of the questions they ask themselves

Live with grace and dignity. It's a middle finger to the darkness

Life’s most precious moments are not all loud or uproarious. Silence and stillness has its own virtues.

More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.

You have to know writing styles well before you can copy them - and then incorporate parts of them into your own style.

Acting is a life of rejection.

Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.

It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.

Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth.

The victory of endurance born.