Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.

Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.

The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves.

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

those which are produced from causes are not produced. they do not have an inherent nature of production. those which depend on causes are said to be empty

More than 100 people are involved in a transplant operation... and we can't waste time and resources if there is a chance the caretakers aren't up for an awesome responsibility.

Living the gospel and standing in holy places is not always easy, but I testify that it is worth it.

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.

I'm sure if you could survey the unborn they would prefer the chance for life over the options of solar power.

There is nothing in words and styles out suitableness that makes them acceptable and effective.

We all need to be recognized for what we're doing, for our work. Every once in a while we need someone to come up to us and say, 'You're beautiful. That was well done. That's nice.'

What is time to a water rat? What is time to the river? Only we humans obsess over days and minutes, hours and seasons.

The last five-six presidents of Haiti have failed miserably. And I don't think it would be an honor for me to say I want to be the next 'president.' I want to be the man by with whom change arrives.

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.