Living in New York after 14 years, I'm such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture.

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.

We should each be a carrier of the Kingdom

You will never forgive anyone more than God has already forgiven you.

Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquette.

I'm interested in designing for posterity.

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

When a woman has her first child in places like Africa, they're really young. They can be 12, 13,14, so their frames are really small, and they're usually malnourished.

We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has made an alliance with us.