All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.

Love is not a doctrine, Peace is not an international agreement. Love and peace are beings who live as possibilities in us.

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

There is a creative spirit in you desiring to be free, and you may as well get out of its way for it will give you no peace until you do.

Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

For since most of our living is unconscious, play is like matchstrokes in the void, bringing into light the structures we behave by, illuminating for us, however briefly, our deep meanings.

It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

The big art is our life.

I don't think I can

If we are facing in the right direction all we have to do is keep on walking.

I never thought I'd say this, what Obama needs in his personality is a little George Bush.

For the land, the sea is beautiful; for the sea, the land is beautiful!

I think women bring a different perspective into Senate and that we tend to be more collaborative in our approach.

Started using Google+ while I was living in space.

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Youth doesn't take advice.

M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.

The achievement of nationhood is a product not only of time and circumstance but usually of war and suffering as well.