Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.

I think baseball has moved on in many ways and the focus on the competitions on the field is really what the game is all about. It seems to be healthy. It seems more people are watching it.

Something always happens. You still have to promise stuff anyway. If you have to work to make the promises true... it's like a spell. You have to say the words every time you want the results.

Reading is good, action is better.

The essence of a sculpture must enter on tip-toe, as light as animal footprints on snow.

Dad was the pitching coach, while Mom was the emotional supporter. Her unconditional love was great, and she wanted what was best for me.

He can be lethal death.

Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength.

If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

Listen to the unstruck sounds, and what sifts through that music.

I'm pretty transparent and very honest almost to a fault. I don't hide anything or sugarcoat anything. I don't play politics because that means I'd have to lie. I'm just forthright in my whole being.