Inspiration is a message-in-a-bo ttle from the distant shore, a window into the other world, a tap of the muse's finger, the grace of the gods. It comes when you least expect it.

Pilgrimage is a powerful metaphor for any journey with the purpose of finding something that matters deeply to the traveler.

That which you are looking for may be calling you to seek.

Inspiration comes and goes, creativity is the result of practice.

What is sacred is what is worthy of our reverence, what evokes awe and wonder in the human heart, and what, when contemplated, transforms us utterly.

In each of us dwells a pilgrim. It is the part of us that longs to have direct contact with the sacred.

The pilgrim is a poetic traveler, one who believes that there is poetry on the road, at the heart of everything.

There is an unknown room in the soul that is constantly turning the stuff of daydreams into myths for us, helping us to get at meaning we can't get to through the front door.

Step by step, a path; stone by stone, a cathedral,' my great-grandfather used to say.

We travel as seekers after answers we cannot find at home

We travel as seekers after answers we cannot find at home, and soon find that a change of climate is easier than a change of heart.

Buddha guides my thoughts, but it's up to me to guide my life.

It takes One... to know One...

I didn't know there were this many math guys," Hale said as they stepped onto the crowded concourse. Kat cleared her throat. "And women," he added. "Math women.

If you can be funny, it means you're intelligent. Your brain is working fast.

I'm not as good as I want to be, But I'm twice as good as you think I am.

I always wanted to be a shortstop so I could play more often!

Marketing is really theater. It's like staging a performance.

Never schedule a board meeting on Wednesday because it kills two weekends.

For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be.

I'm not sure it's possible to stay in Hawaii. It's kind of impractical.