Nature neither gives nor expects mercy.

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.

The only thing you can do with the dreams when you realize it’s already morning is to regret wasting your life while you had all the time.

Learning to accept help from others is not a sign of weakness it's a badge of courage reflecting mutual trust between the giver and the receiver.

Failing to listen to the woman is one of the biggest mistakes a practitioner can make.

I understand the NBA and the role I play on my team. I know that I have to play a leadership role and do whatever I have to do to win.

I was born when you kissed me.

Beer drinking doesn't do half the harm of lovemaking.

If you profess to be a child of God, leave it to the Lord Jesus to sanctify you in His own way.

Believers of Jesus be denouncing Satan on every level, But every Halloween they're dressin' like devils.

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered what I call the fact-founded, thought-through approach to decision making.

Sometimes, what is right for you at the beginning of your life is not the right thing for you at the end of your life.