It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the moon as to put a bone in your nose.

We don't have to be harsh with ourselves when we think, sitting here, that our meditation or our oryoki or the way we are in the world is in the category of worst horse.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.

The unfortunate thing about money is that it always raises suspicion even amongst brothers.

A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.

Employers and employees alike have learned that in union there is strength.

It's funny - more people talk about my 'babe-dom' now than they did before I had a child. Whatever. I guess I'm a role model in hot pants now. That's cool!

Look at all the stars. You look up and you think, 'God made all this and He remembered to make a little speck like me.' It's kind of flattering, really.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.