To hear the faint sound of oars in the silence as a rowboatcomes slowly out and then goes back is truly worthall the years of sorrow that are to come.

I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.

The heart lies to itself because it must.

We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.

We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars.

Everyone forgets Icarus also flew.

I believe that Icarus was not failing as he fell, but just coming to the end of his triumph.

Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods. Our dream wrestles in the castle of doubt. But there’s music in us. Hope is pushed down but the angel flies up again taking us with her.

When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of the waterfall?' 'Silence,' he finally told me.

Why do so manysettle for so little? I don't understand why they're not greedy for what's inside them.

WAKING AT NIGHT The blue river is grey at morning and evening. There is twilight at dawn and dusk. I lie in the dark wondering if this quiet in me now is a beginning or an end.

Let go of the heavy pains of yesterday and you will feel lighter to float on top with your values. Arise and float!

I know a lot of stuff... but what I will say is that you know very small for what's really on the deep web.

Appetite with an opinion of attaining is called hope the same without such opinion despair.

Why am I arguing with a computer?

The perfection of learning is to know God in such a way that, though you realize he is knowable, yet you know him as indescribable.

But you were Mine. My child. And I would not give you up.

When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me.

In general, talking about human rights tends to be very persuasive for people who care about human rights.

Satan laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.