It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.

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.

He wants to give you the best. Wait until the fruit gets ripened to relish completeness forever.

Every lost thing can be found from the same place where it lost

O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace.

I was late once and it cost me $50,000. I figure it was cheaper to wear two watches.

Another argument holds that opposing Saddam Hussein would cause even greater troubles in that part of the world, and interfere with the larger war against terror. I believe the opposite is true.

As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.

Only the more Rugged Mortals should attempt to Keep Up on Current Literature.

Leaders must learn to discipline their disappointments. It's not what happens to us, it is what we choose to do about what happens that makes the difference in how our lives turn out.

In this world, everyone wants to know everything about you, and I think that's funny.

Let us not worry about the future. Let us only do the right thing Today, At this moment, Here and now. Let the future take care of itself.