At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear; I reap the harvest of the rest of the year's planting

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.

That Love is Supreme which is above all the attributes of a Person.

Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can.

Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, just look at the cats, you'll feel better, because they know that everything is, just as it is.

Is dishwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

God is never in a hurry, but God is never late

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

What makes spinal-cord injuries as devastating as they are is that everything about them plays out in absolutes: they are instantaneous, utterly disabling and horribly permanent.

Once you create a loyal customer base, it's tough for a competitor to take that away.

The hunger and desire to go racing, however, never leaves your blood but the right opportunity has never really come along - until now that is.

Those who don't remember the past are doomed to repeat it.