I don't have a cell phone (though for years I've kept saying, "soon").

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.

What you believe and hold close to your heart, you will become.

Let the seeds of hope sprout in the dead of winter.

We have piped unto you and ye have not danced we have mourned to you and ye have not wept.

Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.

The best antidote to worry, I have always believed, is work and more work.

Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.

Banning all Muslims will make it harder for us to do exactly what we need to do, which is to destroy ISIS. We need a strategy. We need to get the lawyers off the back of the warfighters.

In America they had no chance - I knocked them all cold in America

I'm not the greatest driver. I don't know if I'll ever master the art.

I think - you know, I'm a guy that - I don't live on the earth just to walk it. I live on here to make a difference.