Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.

Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about

Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.

...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.

If you purify the pond, the lilies die

Sometimes our best speech is the way we look in silence!

Continuously feeling superior is a characteristic of immaturity.

Sign of a leader - Believe in others.....

We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.

Memories were like sunshine. They warmed you up and left a pleasant glow, but you couldn't hold them.

Today Monopoly added a new game piece: the cat. The new piece was chosen after weeks of online voting. Is that a surprise? Whenever there's a vote for something on the Internet, the cat always wins.

When a man is tired of New York he is tired of work. And thought. And cheesecake.

Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you.

A city where the Capitol Dome, perforated like a kitchen colander, is the symbol of how secrets are kept.

To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.