This garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it can.

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.

We are born and reborn again and again. We are changing with the waves of time.

Don’t start. I saw Marcie climb inside your Jeep.”“She needed a ride.”I adopted a hands-on-hips pose. “What kind of ride?”“Not that kind of ride, ” he said slowly.

Sometimes failing gives you the opportunity to build a better foundation.

It occurred to them for the first time in their lives that what's divine can come in dark skin.

If you are working on something that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.

Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they're in.

My brother brought home 'At San Quentin' when I was about 7, and we played it over and over again.

Love, that all gentle hearts so quickly know.

Fundamental analysis seeks to establish how underlying values are reflected in stock prices, whereas the theory of reflexivity shows how stock prices can influence underlying values

It's amazing to realize that a lot of the insecurities I had when I was younger have pretty much disappeared.