Don't save something good for a later place. Don't hold back from your students, from the poor, don't try to keep anything for yourself 'cause it'll turn to ashes.

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 have time to do what needs to be done.

Even within perfection, there are flaws. These flaws carry an unattainable beauty, which is indifferent to the human nature.

What you aim for, in the first place, is to be as good as you can possibly be. This is what I do, and I'm going to try to be the best in the world.

It is best in the end to let women see to their own vengeance.

In the end we can never be given knowledge by others; we can only be stimulated. We must develop our own knowledge.

To be without a dog is worse than being without a song.

How is it that this debate has been twisted on its head, that somehow those that advocate peace and diplomacy are anti-American?

If I could walk into the 'Friends' audition again and go or not go, I have to say it's 50-50.

But boy, right away it is fun to play around with the Paintbox program.

I'm not doing my work for constant success.