You can lie at a banquet but you have to be honest in the kitchen.

Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about

Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.

Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.

...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.

It was time to take action, to change her own story, to take life into her own hands.

It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.

Regardless of the name a person uses for the Infinite Force that holds us together, it is the source of our miraculous, unpredictable creativity and our dignity.

Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.

The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.

You have this world of mathematics, which is very real and which contains all kinds of wonderful stuff. And then we also have the world of nature, which is real, too.

Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you.

I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.

Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition

Working at a job that you hate. Having a career and a life that you have no passion for. That's hell.