The tiniest of actions is always better than the boldest of intentions

Life isn't about counting what you've earned or what you've done for others. I think life is in those in-between moments when you do something, and you feel really, truly happy just by doing it.

But finally, once in an age, there is a blink. And in that blink, you can be. And in that blink, I can be.

I want my writing to bring people not just to think of "trees" as they mostly do now, but of each individual tree, and each kind of tree.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

What nourishes me also destroys me.

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

You realize, this is not just a little studio we go to make these television episodes. This thing is reaching everybody in the world! Suddenly you realize the power of television.

The sweetest thing I've ever known was like the kiss on the collarbone.

Be kind to each other.

We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.