People who take photographs during their whole vacation won't remember their vacation. They'll only remember what photographs they took.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.

At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body.

The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

Future shackled is when tomorrow is anchored, boxed and managed to maximize the minimizing of uncertainty.

...how many of us have a moved heart that shies away to a different angle, a millimetre or even less from the place where it first existed, some repositioning unknown to us.

We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence.

There is no reward without sacrifice.

He caught her as if he were used to catching fainting girls, as if he did it everyday.

I'm so lucky. I have such a great support system. All I have to do is run.

The message to both parties should be right now that we need to find ways to work together to speak to the American public.

Since the day man first tried to conquer space, the earth has been mobilizing.

You never know who's going to be in the audience. You never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the first time, and you never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the last time.

Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.