You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world's hard work.

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.

Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not something I planned to do.

The painting has a life of its own

Thieves, spies and other wise guys are working everywhere…including in branches of the U.S. government.

... he that will live in this World, must be endu'd with the three rare Qualities of Dissimulation, Equivocation, and mental Reservation.

I think Missy Elliot is pretty creative, I mean at least trying to take it to the future.

I've always been interested in the fragility of things, and with special urgency now because of climate change, but also because of the accidents of reading.

Food - I love nuts. I eat them all the time, they're easy to carry around, and I am never hungry all day long.

You have to be able to use it [art] to effect change in the community. That's what gives the film and the music an impactful legacy.

I tend to play covers when I'm gearing up for creating new song. Singing other people's songs is a way that I get inspired.

Everything you're currently against blocks you from abundance.