We are here to abet creation and to witness to it, to notice each other's beautiful face and complex nature so that creation need not play to an empty house.

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 world is drowned in silence, who will tell your story ? Who tells doesn't know you and who knows, cannot say it.

For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself.

If you have an idea that you can't get out of your head, do a startup. Otherwise join a startup.

The problem is that, you know, the corporate press loves [Donald Trump].

Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.

The World is not ours to keep. We hold it in trust for future generations.

God's greatest blessings are upon those who show the proper respect for the poor and the needy.

And I stop listening to me, because to put it bluntly, I tire me.

Leadership is not defined by the exercise of power but by the capacity to increase the sense of power among those led. The most essential work of the leader is to create more leaders.

We are at our best when we help the weakest. The weak make us strong.