One way to find your place is like the rain, a million requests for lodging, one that wins, finds your cheek: you find your home.

Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about

Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.

Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.

...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.

Photography is about capturing souls, not smiles.

What finally is beauty? Certainly nothing that can be calculated or measured. It is always something imponderable, something that lies between things.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawn mower, snowblower and vacuum cleaner.

I think you know by now that I've been called many things by many people. Quitter is not one of them.

Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow.

Love is like Pi: natural, irrational, and very important.

My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.

You can fight a porcupine and win, but if other folks get a look at you they may think it's a bad idea to mess with porcupines.

India absorbs things; India's not a divisive place.

The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao.