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.

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.

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.

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair... or go into business. You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

On Love - Love without trust is the love you give a dog. You may call that cute little mutt a member of the family but you don't let him in the kitchen when there's a roast on the table.

There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers.

Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.

And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that human rights come first.

If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.

I thought of the infinitely many points that can divide the space between two human hearts.

For me, living means I can be responsive to the other person. It means I can show my emotions and my feelings. Talk to them. Feel with them.

First romance, first love, is something so special to all of us, both emotionally and physically, that it touches our lives and enriches them forever.

I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks.

I thought this should be a travel show, because a lot of people with physical disabilities get discouraged.