Your deepest roots are in nature. No matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of life you lead, you remain irrevocably linked with the rest of creation.

Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea.

The risk is enormous to Democrats. Even talking about censure or impeachment threatens to really agitate the Republican base.

Now that we're essentially an indoor species, walled off from the world of other life forms, we're divorced from the very domain that supports and sustains our lives.

Americans like to make money

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.

At Jerusalem, I went to the mosque and sat down. A man asked me what I wanted. I told him I was a Muslim. Now I realize I can get direct contact with God, unlike Christianity or any other religion.

Home sales are coming down from the mountain peak, but they will level out at a high plateau - a plateau that is higher than previous peaks in the housing cycle.

Surrounded by the self -sufficiency of American culture, we can convince ourselves that we have what it takes to achieve something great.

T is the summer prime, when the noiseless air in perfumed chalice lies.

I walk an 11-minute mile without huffing and puffing.

It's such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning.

A relationship based on people-pleasing is unbalanced and an unnecessary sacrifice of integrity, that will eventually break down.