I breathed the air of history all unaware, and walked oblivious through its littered layers.

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.

Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts.

What you focus upon will always tend to rule what is experienced.

When you don't know where to start, just go to a place you miss so much.

Love is a disease – ultimately you get sick of each other

Sometimes when we’re standing at the edge, we don’t need anyone to talk us down...we just need a push.

I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.

Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people.

Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.

Symmetrical equations are good in their place, but ' vector ' is a useless survival, or offshoot from quaternions, and has never been of the slightest use to any creature.

French women don't have too many clothes - a few good pieces that last for a while and are classic and timeless.