I worked so hard all my life, and all I want to do now is read.

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.

I won’t give my heart to another girl until God shows me it’s my wife.

Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.

Most artists weren't famous until they died (mostly because once they'd died they couldn't create any more art, so it would make it more valuable).

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

Now in these troubled times, even more than ever, we need an affirmation that there is goodness and beauty in the world.

That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before.

Life is hard . . . but we cling to it all the same

The only way the kingdom of God is going to be manifest in this world before Christ comes is if we manifest it by the way we live as citizens of heaven and subjects of the King.

Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.

I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.