The birds and I share a natural history. It is a matter of rootedness, of living inside a place for so long that the mind and imagination fuse.

To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.

The Eyes of the Future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.

I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.

The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leaves.

Despair shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations shared create collaboration, collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change.

Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

the unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.

There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why.

Our power lies in our love of our homelands.

I'm happy for all who reached for the stars happily and successfully.

The Lord delivers those who delight in Him.

Instead of looking at what's depressing, look at what's a blessing.

All through the years of the Soviet empire, its Politburo held 'elections.' Of course, calling something an election and actually having it be an election are different things.

Is it not the artist who - like our dreams - dissolves the pretenses that hide us from ourselves, disclosing both our self-serving fantasies and our unsuspected potentialities?

The nice thing about England is that they actually speak English.

I never really found out what love was.

The freer the market is and the more respect you have for private property, the better the environment is protected.

I just like to look beautiful sometimes.

It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something