Your feelings are none of your business.

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.

To understand and to know someone better, you need is to love them first

I call dealing with your calendar the “calendar boogie” because you seriously have to dance around to pull it alltogether.

Maybe knowledge is power, but it's damned hard to think a burglar to death.

It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living.

A hopeful journey is more important than the destination.

You might not be able to control your circumstances but you can control your response to your circumstances.

We're always trying to really ground it, and I use this term a thousand times, it's a score I want people to feel and not necessarily hear.

My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned in my family. Franklin D. Roosevelt was.

O my Lord, whatever share of this world You have bestowed on me, bestow it to my enemies, and whatever share of the next world You have for me, give it to my friends. You are enough for me.

If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.