Flight is nothing but an attitude in motion.

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.

I realize I am alone and there is no one with me.Is this I wonder, how my whole life will be?

God may want you to be the answer to your own prayer.

I don't feel like I have to live up to anything because I've proven that I can play. Give me the ball and let's go.

My role 14 years ago in Richard III - that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it - they have all the fun!

Apply yourself to solitude. One who is given to solitude knows things as they really are.

The only thing over which you have complete right of control at all times is your mental attitude.

[There is] an increasing tendency among modern men to imagine themselves ethical because they have delegated their vices to larger and larger groups.

A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, and a weak economy leads to a weak nation.

Many of the unexpected opportunities we encounter are small but significant.

I like writing melody without an instrument. It's just so - it's more like the choreography of a bee; you just go.