You think winter will never end, and then, when you don't expect it, when you have almost forgotten it, warmth comes and a different light.

Books were a dependable pleasure. I read more then than I ever was able to read again until now when I am too old to work much and am mostly alone.

And so I learned about grief, and about the absence and emptiness that for a long time make grief unforgettable.

Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me.

I realized that the story of even so small a place can never be completely told and can never be finished. It is eternal, always here and now, and going on forever.

Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it.

An ocean does not know how big she is just like you don’t know how loving and amazing you are.

Life is uncertain, we can only hope.

But our forest is sacred & magical with many unusual creatures & plants.We don’t want people to destroy everything!

I have come here not to find answers, but to find a way to live in a world without any.

In prison, you learn to count each day and each moment. You even count the bad 'meals' and the unbearable ones.

Having everything is just an expression of complete inner freedom.

Success is achieved in inches, not miles.

There are some long silences in Scandinavian and some Japanese films, when the audience knows action is taking place, but the audience hears no action.

The great victory, which appears so simple today, was the result of a series of small victories that went unnoticed

No longer a stranger, you listen all day to these crazy love-words. Like a bee you fill hundreds of homes with honey, though yours is a long flight from here.