Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change, and change is the basic law.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to see things whole.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

There it is, fog, atmospheric moisture still uncertain in destination, not quite weather and not altogether mood, yet partaking of both.

As I stood and watched the mists slowly rising this morning I wondered what view was more beautiful than this.

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination.

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

Failure has its successes.

I'd rather have names to hurt me, than my bones broken with sticks and stones.

Do not let go of your right to make your own decisions, because by doing so you are letting go of who you really are.

You don't have true freedom until you allow a diversity of opinion and a diversity of voices.

My father still reads the dictionairy every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words

I so desperately wanted to be Mr. Somebody. Instead, I was the little brother, included to a point.

I am a missionary, heart and soul.

I like working with an actor who doesn't do the oneupmanship. One who has no trick and gives a true, honest performance.

I will only debate with my equals. All others I teach.

When I stop becoming, that's when I worry.