The words are not mere words. They are the breath and mind, perhaps even the soul, of the person who is reading.

Solve global warming, eliminate the nuclear threat, and we will still have to confront the vastness of our species and the way it diminishes, without thinking, all the other species around it.

Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.

Other seasons come abruptly but ask so little when they do. Winter is the only one that has to be relearned.

(Home is) a place we carry inside ourselves, a place where we welcome the unfamiliar because we know that as time passes it will become the very bedrock of our being.

A reasonable agriculture would do its best to emulate nature. Rather than change the earth to suit a crop... it would diversify its crops to suit the earth

A cliché is dead matter. It causes gangrene in the prose around it, and sooner or later it eats your brain.

Research, in nature’s laboratory, never stops. It explores every possibility. It never lacks funding. It is never demoralized by failed experiments. It cannot be lobbied.

Let go of rejections and focus on self-reflection. For it is within that you will find the light you seek.

The minute we put aside our self-righteousness and move away from being the aggrieved, then we are on a healing process.

Qualifications or not without gratitude you not qualified enough to be a leader.

Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.

Love is large; love defies limits. People talk about the sanctity of love -- love is by definition sacred. Not some love between some people, but all love between all people.

The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable.

I think that fashion and music go hand-in-hand, and they always should. It's the artist's job to create imagery that matches the music. I think they're very intertwined.

Don't give in to all the cliques and popularity. It means nothing. I know super popular guys, and guess what? They're just normal people, too.

Prayer is not an argument with God to persuade him to move things our way, but an exercise by which we are enabled by his Spirit to move ourselves his way.

To not love ourselves can keep what we want from us.