I learned that the interior of life was as rewarding as the exterior of life, and that my richest moments occurred when I was absolutely still.

In due course we arrive, if wit can be said that we ever fully arrive. The truth is there are destinations beyond destinations and do the confirmed sailor goes on tacking forever.

I once met a man who said he had visited every exotic place from the Grand Canyon to the Great Wall, but when I questioned him closely I discovered he hadn't seen the songbirds in his own backyard.

I have a task that is greater than all the labors assigned to Hercules. It demands that I live in the richness of this moment because that is all I have or will ever know.

I can remain on shore, paralyzed with fear, or I can raise my sails and dip and soar in the breeze.

The individual who fears the criticism of others is no different from the one who seeks their praise. Both are shadow figures, fading into the landscape, lacking the will to act for themselves.

If you want him to do it, you've got to change the picture of the world inside his head.

They run like deer, jump like deer and think like deer.

The more grateful we feel, the more things we receive to feel grateful for. The more loved we feel, the more love we receive. The more beautiful we feel, the more attractive we become.

Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second.

I felt free and chained at the same time - like one feels just before election, when all the crooks have been nominated and you are beseeched to vote for the right man.

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

Those who would judge us merely by the heights we have achieved would do well to remember the depths from which we started.

I wanted to watch the women interacting with [Warren Beatty], which takes he chose, and how the actresses were reacting in scenes with him.

I think the most important thing in skiing is you have to be having fun. If you're having fun, then everything else will come easy to you.

To love our enemy is impossible. The moment we understand our enemy, we feel compassion towards him/her, and he/she is no longer our enemy.