I had been chipping at the world idly, and had by accident uncovered vast and labyrinthine further worlds within it.

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.

A rich life is lived from a giving heart not a selfish mind.

Most of us go through each day looking for what we saw yesterday And, not surprisingly, that is what we find.

When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.

My job in my work is not to acquire power; it's to question power.

Even when I was older, I couldn't stop asking questions.

Rise and take your stance once again

True happiness consists in eliminating the false idea of 'I'.

Sometimes it's necessary to do wrong. Sometimes it's the only way to make things right.

There is no moonlight in the Moon. It is same for the fame! Celebrity shines only from the distance!

Led Zeppelin has been there through three generations of teenage angst. And there's a generation of kids now who won't know it, post-Linkin Park.