Variety is the pledge that matter makes to living things.

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.

If you lead me astray, then my wanderings will bring me to my destination.

We are only as sick as our secrets.

And in any case...there are no more supernatural noises nowadays...

Every experience I've had in my life is a resource in my body.

The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.

Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.

In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important.

Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of your branches.

I definitely support free speech.

The essence of Vedanta is that there is but one Being and that every soul is that Being in full, not a part of that Being.