There is that unique moment when one confronts something new and astonishment begins.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.

Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.

The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves.

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

When God takes out the trash, don't go digging back through it. Trust Him.

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.

Search without Google is like social networking without Facebook: unimaginable.

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.

You are the Master of your Fate, the Captain of your Soul.

As soon as we get out of our urban shell, we're still at the mercy of nature as individuals.

Not letting the world destroy you. That’s a daily battle.

A wrongdoing doesn't give us the right to do wrong.

Any man in Hollywood will meet me if I want that. No, make that any man anywhere.

The weary sun hath made a golden set And by the bright tract of his fiery car Gives token of a goodly day to-morrow.