There is no paradise, no place of true completion that does not include within its walls the unknown.

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.

The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.

Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.

How fragile we are, between the few good moments.

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.

Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.

Something looks back from the trees, and knows me for who I am.

In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.

There’s no path to liberation that doesn’t pass through the shadow.

When they realized they were in the desert, they built a religion to worship thirstiness.

I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here-to love and to serve.

The future is a convenient place for dreams.

All these factors are only valuable if you're curious. But in any case, the more knowledge you have, the more things are open and available to you.

The key here in my view is not having to change people's minds, it's just allowing them to know.

My own view is that the general education curriculum that a college picks has to be appropriate for the kind of student body that it has.

When I found out about the audition, I knew that I was going in for 'From Dusk Till Dawn,' but I actually didnt know that I was going to be reading with Robert Rodriguez.

You feel a sense of elation seeing yourself on a billboard.

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.