The more trust you develop in your body, the more trust you develop in your deeper self.

If you have one wish, wish for everything to be exactly as it is. Then wait patiently for your wish to come true.

In fact, it's even true to say that if you want to have a truly amazing life, relax your entire body.

The called souls are chosen by grace.

To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth.

The fire that burns against the cold.

Photography is a universal language, transcending the boundaries of race, politics, and nationality.

Schedule in rest in any pursuit. There’s always another peak, but look back and admire the view for a moment. You have to actually practice that - it’s a balance.

Trouble defies the law of gravity. It's easier to pick up than to drop.

How does the poet transform his banal thoughts (are not most thoughts banal?) into such stunning forms, into beauty?

I'm always in the theater seeing everything, good or bad.

The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.

A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.