The dedicated life is the life worth living.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.

At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body.

The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

The myriad choices of his fateSet themselves out upon a plateFor him to chooseWhat had he to lose

Nature never repeats herself and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.

Men create the gods after their own images.

We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization.

Turning the corner is the most important, but first play the run.

Only foolish people are completely secure.

If you approach Cannes with a sense of humor, nothing is that bad. You have to take it for what it is; otherwise, its silly.

Normally I'm not like a big TV person. I never use my DVR.

Don't do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.