The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.

Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.

How fragile we are, between the few good moments.

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.

Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.

Something looks back from the trees, and knows me for who I am.

In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.

Passion does not make careful arguments: it declares itself, and that is enough.

The definition of freedom is that there is no dependency. Despite having the physical body, one feels no dependency.

I'll do whatever it takes to get you back in my life.

I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.

The fate of a nation depends on the way that they eat.

For things to change for you, you've got to change!

We're never going to scare people into living more sustainably! We have to be able to demonstrate just how dynamic and aspirational such a world could be

I want to live forever! I want to learn how to fly high!

I did not understand the differences between Catholic and Protestant until I was an adult.

If it is solely an evolutionary convenience, there is really no such thing as good or evil.

A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape.