When you write, you lay out a line of words. Soon you find yourself deep in new territory.

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.

By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man.

You're strictly a tulip girl—a red tulip girl.

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.

Happiness in simplicity can be achieved with a flexible mindset and nine hours sleep each night.

Maybe sometimes you just feel like everything can be taken from you all at once.

Don't let the worst people you know dictate your behavior.

The rumored frontrunner for [Donald] Trump's Secretary of State is former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani who of course has no foreign policy experience.

I’m just interested in people on the edges. I feel an affinity for people who haven’t had the best breaks in society. What I want to do more than anything is acknowledge their existence.

There were times when i felt in a slump or lonely but i never thought of giving up

Nothing is more natural than grief, no emotion more common to our daily experience. It's an innate response to loss in a world where everything is impermanent.