Every day is a god, each day is a god, and holiness holds forth in time.

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.

Every heart needs a cutting part sharper than a blade to stab agony

Believe is the beginning of blissful.

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.

Hillary went to a Chipotle in a tortilla pantsuit.

The sunshine that strikes American roads each year contains more energy than all the fossil fuels used by the entire world.

He who wishes to become a master of color must see, feel, and experience each individual color in its endless combinations with all other colors.

I want to read a lot of books and not live lazily. I want to become intellectual.

The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.

Russia's partners should understand it's best not to mess with us.

That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.