Nothing in life is trivial. Life is whole wherever and whenever we touch it, and one moment or event is not less sacred than another.

Life is in the here and now. Either we meet it, we live it-or we miss it.

The life that the dawn brings us is the only life we have. Life is in the here and now, not in the there and afterwards.

When we see the wholeness of being born, living, and dying, there is a joy in living and a grace in dying.

Friendship inspires and enriches the lives of those who come together.

As we deepen in understanding, the arbitrary divisions between inner and outer disappear. The essence of life, the beauty and grandeur of life, is its wholeness.

How much of what is there do you allow yourself to see?

Never love for me, only obsession.

I think pirates, like astronauts, particularly for a boy, are always kind of worth thinking about.

We are talking about institutionalizing a program on solar development that will outlast the Obama administration.

Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy.

I think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it's not how you look; it's how you perform.

Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!

I think I have learned to really get out of the mathematical side of myself that looks at story and story structure and go with, "Okay, well, what would people do in real life?"

Show me an executive that works long hard hours and I'll show you a bad executive.

In the discharge of duties my guide will be the Constitution, which I this day swear to preserve, protect, and defend.