Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.

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.

King Solomon's life reminds meof wisdom, wealth, women, woes.

That which is good for the society is not necessarily good for the individual. That which is good for the individual is good for the society.

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

That's a true actor's nightmare: "Improvise in British sign language. Go."

Our intellect, our awareness, and our consciousness is the most powerful form of life on this planet.

My doctor told me that I drastically needed to lose weight. Fear of death and dying motivated meto make many lifestyle changes that led me to eventually shed over 100 pounds.

Never wear a red t-shirt to Target. I enjoy helping people, but not every two minutes.

I didn't mind giving up carnality, jewelry and red meat in return for comradeship and an afterlife.

My mom decorated with lots of antiques. I never liked it when I was a little girl - I wanted to live in a modern house. But now I love it.

You are the Protector of the Small. You see real people in the humans and animals overlooked by your peers. There will always be work for you.