Regeneration can come only through a change of heart in the individual.

Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water.

Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.

Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses.

If salt ocean is the Great Mother from whom all life has sprung, fresh water is the Nurse entrusted to nourish life within her wanderings and around her wave-lapped margins.

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they dont fit in with normal, healthy people.

Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The childs mind must be set free.

All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me.

Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of inner space and inner silence, which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence.

We are restless because of incessant change but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.

Isn't this amazing? Clinton is getting $8M for his memoir, Hillary got $8M for her memoir. That is $16M for two people who for eight years couldn't remember anything.

Theres a stigma on the word therapy. People relate it to big problems. Thats something we have to change. Going to therapy can be very healthy. It can change the way you see things and treat others.

Stress isn't caused by bad times, but by working where you feel your talents are being underappreciated.

I don't look at life as a battle or as a fight. I don't think I'm scrappy. I'm accepting.

Not one word," Kel warned. "Tobe and I have reached an understanding." Neal's lips twitched. "Why do I feel you did most of the understanding.

Sometimes people try to give me advice going forward, and they say, "You know, you've just got to work to be more likeable in Washington." And I laugh and say, "You know this isn't rocket science.