But we have only begun to love the earth. We have only begun to imagine the fullness of life. How could we tire of hope?-so much is in bud.

You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.

Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.

I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.

Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart.

Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it.

In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.

But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.

Joy and happiness are the treasures of life and it comes when we appreciate and express gratitude for the abundance of our life.

As a kid, I was just led out in the morning to go spend my day with my friends and just run in the woods. And I'd only come home to eat or when I was thirsty.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Usually all my tattoos came at good times. A tattoo is something permanent when you've made a self-discovery, or something you've come to a conclusion about.

... but as has been said, September read often, and liked it best when words did not pretend to be simple, but put on their full armor and rode out with colors flying.

You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.

I love working in TV. TV is fast. You shoot it and it's done quickly.

The final end of Eternity, and the beginning of Infinity

I'm a lot older than my little brothers and sister, so I think I grew up babysitting them.

As we grow in higher consciousness, we discover that it is more important to be the right person then to find the right person.