Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.

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.

I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.

We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.

Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.

Love requires peace, love will dream; it cannot live upon the remnants of our time and our personality.

You are no better than you should be.

On the printed page, it's best to have everything - you know, to still mind your P's and Q's, dot your I's and cross your T's, yes.

A team is not a bunch of people with job titles, but a congregation of individuals, each of whom has a role that is understood by other members.

If you want to play better, you have to eat better, you have to look out for yourself.

No age seemed the age of romance to itself.

We didn't know if ordinary lunatics or just unstable people on the ground could feel incited to harm me.