… real life hardly ever unfolds the way we’d like it to, not like in a story.

There's something about physical labour that helps to chase away any lingering internal demons.

If you're going to make the past your present, be prepared for a lifetime of dust ...

We need stories in order to understand ourselves, for good or bad, to be inspired or horrified, it's how we cope with being human and how we decide what type of person we will become.

Living on the water took away the boundaries created by land and custom and introversion. Without fences and driveways, the water provided a constant thread of connection and dependency.

The oceans and seas are forces which, if you forget, they will gladly remind you.

Life doesn't happen to you, it happens FROM you.

To change undesirable behaviors we see in the world, we must change the thinking that leads to those behaviors.

For six years profound silence was mistaken for profound wisdom.

Do you know what an unwanted bodily condition is? It's a freshly hatched energy-summoning life-giving desire!

The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice - between our aims and what we actually do - creates a moral dry rot which eats away at the foundations of our democratic faith.

It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this.

Art is not in some far-off place. A work of Art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability

Hope knows no fear. Hope dares to blossom even inside the abysmal abyss. Hope secretly feeds and strengthens promise.

Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just.