The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.

She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world.

Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.

It isn't just a village. The houses aren't just places to live. Everything belongs to everybody. Everyone belongs to everyone else. Even a single person can make a difference.

I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.

A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood.

I've never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like seeds awaiting their chance to grow.

I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.

Some people spend the whole of their lives sitting waiting for one train, only to find that they never even made it to the station.

Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Even its end.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

Come out of the don'ts and impossibles. Manifest your dream. Bloom your worth.

Consider the source...Don't be a fool by listening to a fool.

You make yourself too hard, you make yourself brittle too. Crack once, crack all to pieces

Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe. I don't think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul.

I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance.

Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes events?

I think it's going to be an important policy, the opening of Cuba and I think political policy for the hemisphere.

For me, the American Dream was to go racing; for others, it's to pursue whatever their goals may be.

Your mind is your invisible talisman. The letters PMA (positive mental attitude) are emblazoned on one side, and NMA (negative mental attitude) on the other. These are powerful forces.

Exorcism is a subject that interests me, and books on shamanism, I've read through.