I work mornings only. I go out to lunch. Afternoons I play with the baby, walk with my husband, or shovel mail.

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.

People must make make risks, must make mess in their life's. They must make make mistakes, they must think - This is the part of the proccess "learning"!

Silence is the communing of a conscious soul with itself.

Some persons are very decisive when it comes to avoiding decisions.

Why do people always think hurting others is all right, as long as they hurt themselves as well?

All I can do is engage with complete sincerity. Then whatever happens, there is no regret.

Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.

As the woods are the same, the trees standing in their places, the rocks and the earth... they are always different too, as lights and shadows and seasons and moods pass through them.

In that way the long-awaited visit, for which both had prepared questions and had even anticipated answers, was once more the usual everyday conversation.

We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife.

I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.