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.

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.

Saturated Arrogance...imprisoned musescried to be freeshe took away their quillsand saiddo not bother me...

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.

Decide exactly what you want and resolve to persist, no matter what, until you achieve it.

A sense of power is the most intoxicating stimulant a mortal can enjoy.

People say friends don't destroy one another. What do they know about friends?

Crime goes up 10 percent due to the gambling by the third year after racinos or slot machines are open, and then it continues upward after that

Acting's more of a business for me now.

We don't settle for anything less than excellence.

Don't be cocky. Don't be flashy. There's always someone better than you.