Caring passionately about something isn't against nature, and it isn't against human nature. It's what we're here to do.

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.

Don’t measure how far still you’ve got to go, but how far you’ve already gone to get to the point where you are now.

If you are unhappy about something change it.Choose what you want in life, create your plan to get it, put your plan into action and follow through with persistence.

Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world and trying to get comfortable to do your best work.

Probably not. Their depth and our play right now...it doesn't look too good.

I have no academic qualifications whatsoever.

Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.

Mentally I must be lazy, like a little kid, but I always seem to do well when there's a tough situation.

Getting enough of what you want without depriving anyone else is the ultimate act of selfishness and sanity.

I don't write romance novels.

Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.