Unless all ages and races of men have been deluded by the same mass hypnotist (who?), there seems to be such a thing as beauty, a grace wholly gratuitous.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.

At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body.

The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

No matter how dark it may feel, always remember, that somewhere beyond the darkest clouds the Sun is always shining.

Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.

The absolutely awesome incredible power of belief is the genie in your life.

My other car is a vehicle with a bumper sticker describing this car.

When I take the oath of office next year [2017] I will restore law and order to America. Believe me, believe me.

You love new boyfriend?" "I think so. Yes." "Then you must spoil him. And he must spoil you.

People don't die of old age, they die of neglect.

I don't like to spend money when I'm traveling. I like to go places like Hawaii and not spend money. I splurge on time.

Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.

For I never have seen, and never shall see, that the cessation of the evidence of existence is necessarily evidence of the cessation of existence.