The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.

To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.

The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.

If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

We cannot, of course, save the World because we do not have authority over its parts. We can serve the world though. That is everyone's calling, to lead a life that helps.

The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of the exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by the land as it is by genes.

Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.

The land gets inside of us; and we must decide one way or another what this means, what we will do about it.

real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.

Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.

I find myself enjoying being alone a lot of the time, people come and people go and you have to find a way to be ok with both.

Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.

China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.

Sometimes its odd to interact with someone to whom you purposed.

For me, acting is play. It's just play and it's playing make believe really, really well.

I was married to Glenn Ford. But now I feel as though I'm married to God, and in the nicest, purest sense.

Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues.

Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.

If people can't make ends meet at home with food, benefits, health, and health care in particular, how can they be present, engaged, knowledge workers when they come to work?

Life begins at age forty.