All the best things are seen first of all at a far distance.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

The sun is still there... even if clouds drift over it. Once you have experienced the reality of sunshine you may weep, but you will never feel ice about your heart again.

She long ago accepted the fact that happiness is like, swallows in spring. It may come and nest under your eaves or it may not. You cannot command it.

All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.

In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.

The child in us is always there, you know, and it's the best part of us, the winged part that travels farthest.

Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance

Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.

He grinned at her, and she grinned at him, and it seemed to Maria that suddenly the sun came out.

Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.

When the living gets unburdened with needs and desires, the life becomes simple and easy to carry.

Capitalism puts things (capital) higher than life (labor). Power follows from possession, not from activity.

When I am brave enough to say goodbyeI'll use the wings you gave meand away I'll fly

I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.

I never liked filming the ads, but they were so well received.

One use of dreams is that, unprejudiced by our often forced and artificial reflections, they represent the impartial outcome of our entire being.

Journalist: 'Have you received any death threats?' Harry Redknapp: 'Only from the wife when I didn't do the washing up!'.

When creatively passionate people get together to start a company, the energy and camaraderie is really pretty stimulating.

They say women and music should never be dated.

I managed a team that was so bad we considered a 2-0 count on the batter a rally.