The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.

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.

Like the morning sun, you appeared in my cloudy sky and filled my world with light, love, beauty, and joy.

Need will send you even into the arms of your enemy

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

A man can make up his mind quickly when he has only a little to make up.

I can still sing most Eagles songs, even though I never bought a record and never liked the band.

Why do I have this imagination? It's the only one I've got!

I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.

It is always cheaper to do the job right the first time.

Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.

People who are over-educated become risk-averse.