We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence.

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.

Courage is a certainty.

A friend of mine gave me a rainbow and it made me happy. So, I in turn, gave it to a complete stranger and then it made both of us smile.

Not only is orderliness an economy; it produces rest.

I can get quite down on myself because if people don't like what you're doing, it's hard.

TV is the best. I wish that's how life was.

Never make a companion equal to a brother.

My own success was attended by quite a few failures along the way. But I refused to make the biggest mistake of all: worrying too much about making mistakes.

But we're alive, and together, and we're going to be all right.

Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.

It is hard sometimes to look into the future, you never know what twist and turn the school of life is going to take.