Horses have made civilization possible.

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.

You don’t need a long beard to be a sage

Nearly every grave moral failure begins with a small sin.

I never touch coffee or other caffeinated drinks.

Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless, but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks.

Only way to eliminate the element of surprise is to know yourself and now your adversary.

We cannot write well or truly but what we write with gusto.

It's funny to have become an elegant skier now. But my drive is still the same.

At times we are slaves of sin. Lord, come to free us!

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

If you have to explain about how something's supposed to feel, it takes away all the magic.