I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn't flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.

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.

With a book he was regardless of time.

Yeah. I left something here that I love.

If you want poets in space, you'll have to wait.

the more I live, the more I regret how little i know

A true gentleman makes demands upon himself but not upon others.

If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them.

Being in love is a very strange thing. Your thoughts constantly drift towards this other person, no matter what you're doing.

If things don't work out the way you want, hold your head up high and be proud. And try again. And again. And again!

My base will show up in earthquakes.

Children are receptive to talking about gender creativity, confirming the importance of the book as a means to instigate this dialogue at an early age.