Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.

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.

To find elegant souls, you must wander in the elegant places!

If you are waiting to gain power to do something

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

To pray with your fists closed means you're hanging onto something. Let it go. Open your hands to God.

From my personal point of view, the Animals are dead. They killed themselves.

Agriculture and intercultural dialogue: our common heritage.

Right now is a great time to be a woman in tech, but there's not enough women in tech.

I look into my heart and see the abyss looking back at me.' 'I won't let you fall.

Then your heart is a black, shriveled thing, because you absoluteky betray me.

One thing I've learned from 35 years in the classroom is that people learn best when they are laughing, when they are emotionally hit, that it's both the brain and the heart.