Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.

Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.

The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves.

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

There is hope in any circumstance. Be strong!

Rising amateurs always intimidate falling masters.

Trauma ruptures and hollows. Compassion mends and fills

Rejoice always pray constantly and in all circumstances give thanks.

When one person gets cancer, the whole family gets cancer.

Man's passion for truth is such that he will welcome the bitterest of all postulates so long as it strikes him as true.

Devotion is diligence without assurance

The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people.

It is nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways.

Whoever you are, or want to be, you may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.