The crocodile doesn't harm the bird that cleans his teeth for him. He eats the others but not that one.

Walking. I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.

Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing.

There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.

tears have a purpose. they are what we carry of the ocean, and perhaps we must become the sea, give ourselves to it, if we are to be transformed.

We make art out of our loss.

It is a paradox in the contemporary world that in our desire for peace we must willingly give ourselves to struggle.

Poetry has its own laws speaking for the life of the planet. It is a language that wants to bring back together what the other words have torn apart.

Mystery is part of each life, and maybe it is healthier to uphold it than to spend a lifetime in search of half-made answers.

Telling about our lives is important for those who come after as, for those who will see our experience as part of their own historical struggle.

A spoken story is larger than one unheard, unsaid. In nearly all creation accounts, words or songs are how the world was created, the animals sung into existence.

All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.

The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.

It was the lowest point of my life. I just kept thinking, 'What have I done to deserve this?' I didn't see the point in living.

He is a goal scorer, not a natural born one - not yet. That takes time.

I would turn on the TV, but its so embarassing.

Be the best at what you do. Get to know more about your field than anybody alive.

[Getting the truth in the New York Post has been as] difficult as finding a good hamburger in Albania.

If you say it was the "last" time, it might well turn out to be the last. What you meant was "the most recent time I was here".

People often ask me if I know the secret of success and if I could tell others how to make their dreams come true. My answer is, you do it by working.