When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.

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.

If I could mark clearly, convincingly and consistently what was good for me and also what was bad—if I could say yes and also no, as if it were the law—it would become my law.

The dumb-manager theory of business problems just didn't hold water for me. There had to be a deeper reason why smart people would make decisions that lead to failure.

Magnus had a list of favored traits in a partner-black hair, blue eyes, honest.

Her coming was my hope each day, Her parting was my pain; The chance that did her steps delay Was ice in every vein.

I think certain people would be moved to be nostalgic about America's glory days, when the music set the tone for the cultural conversation and popular musicians had this absurd level of authority.

The Congressman ascertained that the consulate in Havana had numbers to feed the pigs.

Christian practice is that evidence which confirms every other indication of true godliness.

I don't feel that I need a tattoo to represent myself as a Samoan or a Christian.

My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.

Thy food is such As hath been belch'd on by infected lungs.