I had hopes for my rough edges. I wanted to use them as a can opener, to cut myself a hole in the world's surface and exit through it.

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.

Fight for the only thing she knew was good enough, noble enough, powerful enough to be worth risking everything... Love.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

The Prussian monarchy is not a country which has an army, but an army which has a country in which – as it were – it is just stationed.

I have done all that I came into this world to do. I have worked task work, and have the rest of the day to myself.

no expectations, no disappointments!

By the time that product is ready to be distributed widely, it will already have established customers.

The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.

I wish that people had an opportunity to watch me 24/7, like on 'Big Brother.' You'd see a person who is quiet and reserved and very analytical - a huge observer.

Only death does not lie.

The living world is not a single array... connected by unbroken series of intergrades.