The joyful heart sees and reads the world with a sense of freedom and graciousness.

Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.

When one flower blooms spring awakens everywhere

The life and passion of a person leave an imprint on the ether of a place. Love does not remain within the heart, it flows out to build secret tabernacles in a landscape.

Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuristic eye of a neon culture. Real intimacy is of the soul, and the soul is reserved.

We do not need to grieve for the dead. Why should we grieve for them? They are now in a place where there is no more shadow, darkness, loneliness, isolation, or pain. They are home.

Inspiration is always a surprising visitor.

When time is reduced to linear progress, it is emptied of presence.

...the only difference between a young person at the height of their exuberance and a very old person who is frail and physically wasted is time.

Friendship is a creative and subversive force. It claims that intimacy is the secret law of life and universe.

When you steal a people's language, you leave their soul bewildered.

To become an effective radiation researcher, you must develop the ability to discern fact from fiction.

Living through difficult life circumstances in not an excuse for passing trauma onto someone else.

Everyone is a business person. You must be in the business of managing your time. Managing your time means managing your life. Good time managers are good life managers, and vice versa.

Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on.

The world has a lot to thank murderers for, when you come to think of it.

Win or lose, we achieve nothing in the world that we understand [...]' 'But then the world does not matter.' 'Indeed it does not [...] It is good to understand that.

The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing.

Were a man to consult only his reason, who would marry? For myself, I wouldn't marry, for fear of having a son who resembled me.

Photographs put time into such a perspective. They humble us and our selfish memories.