An intuitive insight or concept can often turn out to be an unexpected success.

Like Salvador Dali’s paintings of watches melting in the sand, time wanders at its own curious pace whenever you’re on vacation in a foreign country.

Find a way to learn something from every disappointment.

Barely halfway back, exhaustion sets in. What if I don’t make it? An edge of panic gets intercepted by a calmer inner voice: Look behind you.

Out here on the water, it’s a fine line between feeling in control and losing it altogether.

Instead of falling, I am dancing with the wind.

Flip a coin. Life or death. Heads or tails. You never know.

If there’s a takeaway from working here, it’s an understand that, as bioorganisms, we are a walking time bomb programed for cellular self-destruction. Not if, when.

Lucid dreams often feel like this—as if you are observing yourself from a point over your shoulders-arm flexed, hands curving around the boom, breathing, in three dimensional silence.

There are two kinds of special events: planned and unplanned.

Inside, my spirit is sparkling like foam on the crest of a wave at high tide under a full moon.

Nature will always be nature.

Always remember: No matter how carefully you choose your words, they'll always end up being twisted by others.

It has to be an awfully good meeting to beat having no meeting at all.

It is only by doing things others have not that one can advance.

We are the only country in the world that trashes its old buildings. Too late we realize how very much we need them.

It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.

It's like a spiritual elevation that occurs when you're playing and becoming one with the instrument or players on the stage.

You know, God bless him, bless his heart, president of the United States, a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy, you name the subject.

Any good that comes our way doesn't come to us solely because we have done something good, but because God is good.

But, you know, there's another group that really runs the show. It's very shadowy, just as you've described... Those of us in the Congress of the United States are window dressing.