Nothing reveals more about the inner life of a people than their arts.

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.

Influence is when you don't talk and yet your words fill the room when you are absent and yet your presence is felt everywhere.

His appearance projected danger and reinforced the common knowledge that one did not want to piss off a demon, especially this one.

You can't analyze God. He is too awesome, too big, too mysterious.

All human relationships must be purchased with money.

Civil disobedience is not something outside the realm of democracy. Democracy requires civil disobedience. Without civil disobedience democracy does not exist.

Stars are beautiful, but they may not take part in anything, they must just look on forever.

I want to take this opportunity to express, one more time, my deep sadness to those countrymen who feel, rightly, that they were victims of my government.

And the more you spend in blessing The poor and lonely and sad, The more of your heart's possessing Returns to you glad.

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.