I'm sure civilizations will still evolve through play, or rather as play, since that seems to be a fundamental mechanism of our humanity.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.

Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.

The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves.

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

Sometimes, on our way through the world, we meet someone who touches our heart in a way others don't.

To lose one parent might be considered a misfortune, or a reason to deny God’s existence at the least. To lose two looks like He may be up to something.

everybody-even monsters-needed a little attention once in a while.

When one has had a life as difficult as mine, one doesn't worry about how others will react.

I feel like music is oceanic - there's no end to what you can discover.

Misfortune may become fortune through patience.

I like people, but to learn about one individual always appeals to me more than anything.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

I love seeing young people take a stance and not be afraid to say how they feel, and protest when they feel things are wrong or unjust.