I learn by going where I have to go.

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

Beginnings start without shade,Thinner than minnows.The live grass whirls with the sun,Feet run over the simple stones,There's time enough.Behold, in the lout's eye, love.

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

How body from spirit slowly does unwind, until we are pure spirit at the end.

May my silences become more accurate.

Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

I teach my sighs to lengthen into songs.

When I go mad, I call my friends by phone: I am afraid they might think they're alone.

The nature of humanity, its essence, is to feel another's pain as one's own, and to act to take that pain away, . There is a nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy, a grace in forgiveness.

It is spectacular to watch an erupting volcano

At what point do you give up— decide enough is enough? There is only one answer really. Never.

I'm looking forward to coming back, back to Earth, the landing, the views.

It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do.

Finally, we should help developing nations like China and India curb their exponentially increasing consumption of oil and natural gas, which is driving world prices higher.

My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.

Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure.

It is what it is. But you have the power to turn it into an isn't so bad.

Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.