In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people.

Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy.

Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia.

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.

Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.

I know that touching you will be understanding my fingers for the first time.

Every bar in the scores of ourselves is already into memory into imagination, even as we play it out. We might as well listen.

I feel good about who I am.

Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores.

Jeb Bush admitted that he smoked a notable amount of pot in school. He said, 'You would too if your parents had named you 'Jeb.'

You cannot buy trust at any price. But slowly, over time, you can build it for free.

It is in my soul to spread love and laughter.

I honor the place within you where, when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.

What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love; but the secret of my friend is not mine!

Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried.