Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean.

Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about

Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.

Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.

...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.

In Ireland, it's been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they're Irish.

Passion is more important than justice.

I did about 50 pull-ups and 1,000 crunches a day. Crazy.

Manitoba... Not sure what to do about them. Restock the province with megafauna and encourage tourism, I think. How quickly can we breed back the saber-toothed cats?

I'm sure my first nine years have had a powerful influence on the kind of books I write.

Death's a path we're all on, son

When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.

In a real estate man's eye, the most expensive part of the city is where he has a house to sell

I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.