We live beyond words, as also we live beyond computation and beyond theory.

People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

It may be that when we no longer know... which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

Outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders; we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary, but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread.

Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.

You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.

Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

If we learn to know that there is no enemy but we only have friend with misunderstanding then peace will be there.

Hope that justice will be done to those brave men who stood up for their convictions.

Embrace love and compassion with all your spirit. Understand that they never hurt or offend, they just heal and empower.

I find you in these tears, few, useless and here at last. Don't come back.

The fig tree had dropped its fruit all over the ground. Ripe figs lay in the dust, exploded, bloody, as if the sky had rained organs.

Talking is easy action difficult.

I would like to think that Ive left the world of cardiovascular surgery better than when I found it. That would be a suitable epitaph.

I just go with what excites me.

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

Thankfully I'm a better actor than football player, or at least I hope so.