The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.

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.

She said yes. If only she didn't talk so much!

Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.

Depression is not the lack of happiness, it' the imbalance of it.

I'm looking forward to getting back on the field, it's what I love to do.

My final, considered judgment is that the hardy bulb [garlic] blesses and ennobles everything it touches - with the possible exception of ice cream and pie.

I just tape four Tylenols to it.

There is a vast difference between living according to one's idea of what it is to be good, and actually being that way.

Fear runs our lives a lot of the time. You can face it head-on, or you can hide in your bunker.

I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else.

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.