Love is the white light of emotion.

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.

You cannot become what you already are.

You don’t change the world with the ideas in your mind, but with the conviction in your heart.

Picking projects, it's always director first and then script. Those two things are pretty much head-to-head.

You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.

We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.

What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!

The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it.

How I choose to look at any situation will greatly affect whether I have the power to change it or make matters worse.

When you change the way you look at a thing, the thing itself changes...By mastering feelings, she had come to understand the meaning of discipline and its reward: freedom and power.

Thoughts are going by like a river; awareness simply is.