It's love,' they say. You touch the right one and a whole half of the universe wakes up, a new half.

Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about

Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.

Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.

...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.

We all have our dreams. May we find them, and God have mercy on us when we do.

There's an electrical thing about movies.

If a man can shoot 10 birdies, there's no reason why he can't shoot 18. Why can't you birdie every hole on the course?

It was like I had a curse on me. I couldn't believe how much God was piling on. There was so much death around me.

I find that whoever you are as a person is how you're gonna fight, and every basic instinct kind of comes out at that moment.

Being a conservative on campus is like bing a goat amongst the taliban. You are never safe.

For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.

Holy communion is to feel one with the One in all beings and creations.

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans.

The world's richest half billion people - that's about seven per cent of the global population - are responsible for fifty per cent of the world's emissions.