None of us knows how we will cope with snakes until the moment arises, and then most of us find out that we do not do it very well.

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

There is room in history for all of us.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.

How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.

Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.

We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.

There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

May I nurture the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the courage to change the things I can change and wisdom to know the difference

Without struggle, success has no value.

If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.

Now and then I find a kitschy series I love.

New York City is filled with random, quirky moments like this, chance collisions that just might change your life.

For the book to succeed, it has to have equal parts ugliness and beauty, counterpoints adding up to emotional complexity. To me, there's a dignity in letting your art be emotionally complex.

There are good men everywhere. I only wish they had louder voices.

Meditation simply means a state of no-thought, awareness without the process of thought, just pure, mirror-like awareness, with no thoughts passing in the mind.

I've actually taken companies public, I've actually busted companies, I've actually gone broke.

Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart.