Your fate is to be yourself, both punishment and crime.

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.

The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.

Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.

How fragile we are, between the few good moments.

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.

Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.

Something looks back from the trees, and knows me for who I am.

In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while you're down there.

When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.

When I look around I think this, this is good enough; And I laugh at whatever life brings because when I look down, I just miss all the good stuff and when I look up, I just trip over things.

Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people.

I'm not a natural joiner.

All things do help the unhappy man to fall.

There is something of the same pleasure in noticing the hues of the stars that there is in looking at a flower garden in autumn.

We conservatives don't have a corner on saying no. We're just the ones who say it when it's the right thing to say.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch?