When the gods know that a god hath fallen, With this kindly feeling They do encourage him-- Be thou a god again and again.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

The journey, Not the destination matters.

moonlight disappears down the hillsmountains vanish into fogand i vanish into poetry.

Enjoy the contented silence.

Kids are important. The most important thing.

What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part.

Leaving North Korea is not like leaving any other country. It is more like leaving another universe. I will never truly be free of its gravity, no matter how far I journey.

Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different.

We become just by the practice of just actions.

Cultivate simplicity, Coleridge.

I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements.

When I say I loved it, I don't mean I loved being hit. I just mean...there was some good in there, too. I am not going to call it all bad.