We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.

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.

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.

Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.

I am not a pretty girl. I don't want to be a pretty girl. No, I want to be more than a pretty girl.

The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.

I try to avoid typecasting by doing different roles.

No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

I always want to work with people that I can grow with.

Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.

An uncontrolled sense of humor is often costly in business.