The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to c

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.

The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.

Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.

How fragile we are, between the few good moments.

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.

Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.

Something looks back from the trees, and knows me for who I am.

In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.

To Jim Duggan, taking a shower is a high risk maneuver.

Rowing is such a fine sport. Everyone goes backward, and the leader can see his opponents as they struggle in vain.

There's no deodorant like success.

Men seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them.

Privilege has its own way of seeing the world. It's not about the kind of people they are; it's about the situation they're in.

Of course you have to create the conditions of a certain belief. And maybe ignoring something that you don't want to see, at least for the time of the shooting.

I think more about the family now. That's an interesting progression for me.

I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on.

You've no fear of heights," puffed the girl. "None," I said. "I've heard that about you.

I can't wait to have kids one day. I want to have kids and a farm with lots of animals on a lake.