What is a house but a bigger skin, and a neighborhood map but the world's skin ever expanding?

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.

Peace within us starts when we learn to forgive and let go

If God is so concerned about the state of truth in any society, I think that should begin to concern us as well

To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me - not success.

Energy begets energy.

As an actor, the first thing you learn in drama school is you never judge.

There's a storm inside of us. I've heard many team guys speak of this. A burning. A river. A drive.

I'm like the trunk of a cactus... I take in a dose of culture and time with friends, then I retreat and go live on it for awhile until I get thirsty again.

The Atlantic really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.

The least planned part of the journey, however, was the journey itself.

In the end, as a manager or coach, you have to keep your heart pure and do your best as a manager or a coach.