Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have.

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.

Let the night take you. Let the stars evaporate into your dreams. Let sleep be the only comfort for you to believe.

History warns us ... that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

Delayed answers to prayer are not only trials of faith; they also give us opportunities to honor God through our steadfast confidence in Him, even when facing the apparent denial of our request.

We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe.

That's how it is sometimes--God comes to your window, all bright light and black wings, and you're just too tired to open it.

Your power play can win you games, and your penalty killers can save you games.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

I passed out in our front yard. But honey, don't turn out the light, cause I think I'm in the mood for love tonight.

I say, Ich liebe Deutschland! Heil Hitler! and farewell.