How body from spirit slowly does unwind, until we are pure spirit at the end.

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

Beginnings start without shade,Thinner than minnows.The live grass whirls with the sun,Feet run over the simple stones,There's time enough.Behold, in the lout's eye, love.

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

May my silences become more accurate.

Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

I teach my sighs to lengthen into songs.

When I go mad, I call my friends by phone: I am afraid they might think they're alone.

I have gone into the waste lonely places

If a Manx cat tells you that it is trying to preserve its long, beautiful tail, you don't have to believe it - especially if you have eyes.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

In the days following the crash, an axiom as old as the Republic came into play once more. In good times Wall Street wanted Washington to leave it alone. In bad times it wanted Washington to act.

I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.

I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.

Whether we live to a vigorous old age lies not so much in our stars or in our genes but in ourselves.

Jimmy found himself wishing to make a dent in Crake, get a reaction; it was one of his weaknesses, to care what other people thought of him.

The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.

The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred.

Psychics can never be 100 percent. I think that would be scary to be 100 percent.