If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox.

To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.

The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.

If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

We cannot, of course, save the World because we do not have authority over its parts. We can serve the world though. That is everyone's calling, to lead a life that helps.

The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of the exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by the land as it is by genes.

Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.

The land gets inside of us; and we must decide one way or another what this means, what we will do about it.

real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.

Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.

Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.

Many people say that time heals all wounds, but that simply is not true. People can become more bitter, arrogant and spiteful with age.

May my thoughts of kindness stretch over like a warm blanket to envelop your being and caress your soul.

Religion is the worst enemy of mankind. No single war in the history of humanity has killed as many people as religion has.

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. If you are generous, you will gain everything.

To impress people as much as we would wish, we would first need to successfully adopt each of their value systems

His smile brought back the best times, sweet memories of nights together... stirring up those old feelings that got me thinkin' bout forever.

Think of everything you've ever experienced that was painful; that's the meaning of Good Friday. Think of all the ways that love ultimately healed your heart; that's the meaning of Easter.

This whole world is run by brutes for the common and the stupid.

I was not going to be a stupid girl singer. I was going to be way more than that.