I have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body moves like a sliding moon.

To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.

... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.

We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again.

The door to the soul is unlocked; you do not need to please the doorkeeper, the door in front of you is yours, intended for you, and the doorkeeper obeys when spoken to.

Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.

We make the path by walking.

It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.

There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve, I want to tie the two arms together, And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags.

Live for possibilities. Live with passion and purpose.

Sometimes I think I'm a really interesting guy.

My parents are both from Vermont, very old-fashioned New England. We heated our house with wood my father chopped. My mom grew all of our food. We were very underexposed to everything.

That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.

Movies are, like sharp sunlight, merciless; we do not imagine, we view.

there are some people who never learn; indeed, few people learn by experience, so far as I have ever seen.

If I, being a mother of two, can win a medal, so can you all. Take me as an example and don't give up.

We left no doubt that we are one heartbeat And something like that is pretty hard to stop Once it gets going

I believe that kids as well as adults are entitled to books of no socially redeeming value.

Talk and action are two different things.