If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to see things whole.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

There it is, fog, atmospheric moisture still uncertain in destination, not quite weather and not altogether mood, yet partaking of both.

As I stood and watched the mists slowly rising this morning I wondered what view was more beautiful than this.

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination.

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

As paint needs a canvass for its beauty to show, stars need darkness for their splendor to shine.

I always like to say that our brand or our philosophy has always been kind of this marriage between the 'food as indulgence, ' and it's also been about 'food as health, ' that food is vitality.

Nobody can see into the future. Nobody knows what going to go on.

Personally, I'm happier than I've ever been. So for me and my tiny little bubble the world is awesome, but I think that the world is in a pretty horrific state, especially at the momet with Syria.

The ballance distinguisheth not betweene gold and lead.

As a bandleader, I try to pass on the same family values that I grew up with: help people, hang on to your sense of humour, be tolerant and keep your judgments to yourself.

Whatever happens to you, embrace it, the good and the bad equally. Death is just one more thing to be embraced.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

It's different, but it's very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.

Have you ever heard of the expression, ladies first" "Yes" "Well, it's truer in bed than it is anywhere else.