The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.

To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.

The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.

If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

We cannot, of course, save the World because we do not have authority over its parts. We can serve the world though. That is everyone's calling, to lead a life that helps.

The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of the exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by the land as it is by genes.

Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.

The land gets inside of us; and we must decide one way or another what this means, what we will do about it.

real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.

Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.

As a writer of philosophy, it's good to ask oneself, 'Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or even years?

When you invest in life, you are being fruitful and productive

Glimmer, I hear someone call her - ugh, the names the people in District 1 give their children are so ridiculous ...

My lover asks me:“What is the difference between me and the sky?”The difference, my love, Is that when you laugh, I forget about the sky

Serving others prepares you to lead others.

Unless people are prepared to declare themselves your enemies you have to hunt around for them.

Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.

In my day, I, being the first supermodel, I hawked everything.

Ian Rush unleashed his left foot and it hit the back of the net

Knowledge is devalued when it becomes too generally known