I try to give myself passionately, totally, to whatever I'm observing, with as much affectionate curiosity as I can muster, as a means of understanding a little better what being human is.

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.

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

I grew up in Florida and went to school there, and ended up going to University of Central Florida.

I feel like, as women and men and people on the planet, you just have to do the best with what life gives you.

People have been kind enough to compare me to Celine Dion, Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston. I think it's amazing that they even put my name in the same sentence.

The encomium of one incapable of flattery is indeed flattering.

Have the fearless attitude of a hero and the loving heart of a child.

Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?

Trump represents the ultimate anti-status-quo suckerpunch.

The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be a century of cities.

Lights of the world, and stars of human race.