I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.

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.

The night had darkened to the murky sort where the air hung like descending clouds and the overhead branches made the liquid darkness even more impenetrable.

It is spring, let us dance and dream with flowers. Let us sing and enjoy the trees.

The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.

I have sinned terribly, and I do not know what punishment awaits me.

I bet when all the punctuation marks have a party, they quietly look at exclamation point's wife and think, that poor woman.

We don't back off obstacles and tough situations, we use them to make us stronger.

Do not let anyone discourage you. If they try: get determined, not depressed.

When I think about a Chicago sound, I think about the Great Migration from the South. Many of Chicago's black artists are from Mississippi, Arkansas, and with them was brought blues and gospel music.

Christianity is not a religion, it is a relationship.

I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love.