Gestation requires protected space; ripening requires both permeability to the outer — and non-disturbance.

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.

The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.

Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.

How fragile we are, between the few good moments.

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.

Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.

Something looks back from the trees, and knows me for who I am.

In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.

You MUST know You to do YOU!

When will you open your eyes to the possibility of the world?

It seemed possible to me, in the dry heat of that courtroom, that heaven was a metaphor for the grace of perspective you get when you die

I lived for music since I could think.

The ability to produce every necessity of life renders us independent in war as well as in peace.

I think if you want to get to know me, you should come and see a show. A person might get to see more sides of me.

Redford builds a riveting, resonant political thriller that values the complexity of its characters and the intelligence of its audience.

To change the world we must be good to those who cannot repay us.

I said to my doctor, 'You gotta testme, there's something wrong with me that I would be behaving this way.'

Recording stories is a way of honoring the faculty of memory, even if it's recorded, outsourcing memory to technology.