The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you will write.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.

At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body.

The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't makeit through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'llmake a door. Something terrific will come no matter how darkthe present.

True thinking brings a good life!

For me teaching has provided community and livelihood and the satisfaction of passing along what I've learned to others.

NBC's priorities are Jimmy Fallon and Jay Leno, and then there's me.

We have to be much tougher. We have to be much stronger than we've been.

The criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative.

Rock is a great master of life. It teaches us this simple philosophy: Stay firm!

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.

My ultimate fantasy is to entice a man to my bedroom, put a gun to his head and say, 'Make babies or die'.

Loving Jesus is what's most important to me. I know it sounds hokey, but it's the truth.