Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.

Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.

The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves.

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

In the end, those who demean others only disrespect themselves.

Insight that dawns slowly seems to me to have more lasting effects than a fitful idealism, which is unlikely to hold out for long.

Overcoming fear and conceiving this 'art of more' should be a fundamental practice in what it is that you do and make.

When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success.

There is a pleasure in meeting the glance of a person whom we have lately laid under some obligations.

To say we love God as unseen and at the same time exercise cruelty toward the least creature moving by His life or by life derived from Him, was a contradiction in itself.

Some authors regard morality in the same light as we regard modern architecture. Convenience is the first thing to be looked for.

The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.

To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don't read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea how things are going.

My definition of a good hotel is a place I'd stay at.