Death is dancing me ragged.

Walking. I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.

Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing.

There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.

tears have a purpose. they are what we carry of the ocean, and perhaps we must become the sea, give ourselves to it, if we are to be transformed.

We make art out of our loss.

It is a paradox in the contemporary world that in our desire for peace we must willingly give ourselves to struggle.

Poetry has its own laws speaking for the life of the planet. It is a language that wants to bring back together what the other words have torn apart.

The crocodile doesn't harm the bird that cleans his teeth for him. He eats the others but not that one.

Mystery is part of each life, and maybe it is healthier to uphold it than to spend a lifetime in search of half-made answers.

Telling about our lives is important for those who come after as, for those who will see our experience as part of their own historical struggle.

The whales do not sing because they have an answer, they sing because they have a song.

The superior person is in harmony, but does not follow the crowd. The lesser person follows the crowd, but is not in harmony.

But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet every day.

I just took some ecstasy, ain't no tellin' what the side effects could be.

People always ask me, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' Well, I don't have an alibi.

Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves.

It was the dawn of the third age of mankind.

The good is always the enemy of the best.

Shakespeare is forever coming into our affairs -- putting in his oar, so to speak -- with some pat word or sentence.

You can make anything into a special occasion and dress up for it