(Home is) a place we carry inside ourselves, a place where we welcome the unfamiliar because we know that as time passes it will become the very bedrock of our being.

Solve global warming, eliminate the nuclear threat, and we will still have to confront the vastness of our species and the way it diminishes, without thinking, all the other species around it.

Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.

Other seasons come abruptly but ask so little when they do. Winter is the only one that has to be relearned.

A reasonable agriculture would do its best to emulate nature. Rather than change the earth to suit a crop... it would diversify its crops to suit the earth

A cliché is dead matter. It causes gangrene in the prose around it, and sooner or later it eats your brain.

The words are not mere words. They are the breath and mind, perhaps even the soul, of the person who is reading.

Research, in nature’s laboratory, never stops. It explores every possibility. It never lacks funding. It is never demoralized by failed experiments. It cannot be lobbied.

Flow is the nature of energy

It's easy to question yourself and ask if you're doing a good job, but there are so many different factors to landing a role. I remind myself that a lot of it is completely out of my control.

The proverbial thirteenth chime of the clock - is not only wrong itself, but calls into question everything that came before it.

I trust I may be enabled in the treatment of patients always to act with a single eye to their good.

I hope that I can turn some of my fans that might be homophobic or supporters that might be homophobic and say, "You know what, we're all one people. This is love."

Parents must have the courage to say no, to defend truth, and to bear powerful testimony.

Songs, stories are beyond value; they are the memory and wisdom of a people, the particular individual rivers of the sea of life which constitutes us all.

Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.

Baptizing them in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost: there are three distinct persons: in the Name, not names; there is one essence.

Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.