Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you.

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.

You like it in jail?''It's not too bad. You don't meet the best people, but who the hell wants to?

L.A. bumper sticker: Keep honking - I'm reloading.

As I learnt very early in my life in Whitehall the acid test of any political question is: What is the alternative?

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

If you only knew, for instance, how much I enjoy being a grandmother! Do you know I'm twice a grandmother? Rajiv and Sonia have had a boy and a girl.

My favourite city is Miami. It's very fresh and the beach is sunny.

Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world.

It actually giggles at you as it goes by.

The first step to delighting your customers is being there when they need you.

It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal one.