"If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young."

"We must not inflict life on children who will be resented we must not inflict unwanted children on society."

"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up."

"My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear."

"The essence of creativity is the belief that the river of time shapes the stones of destiny."

"People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time."

"A visionary sees the unseen and knows the river of time shapes the stones of destiny."

"Nature teaches us a valuable lesson: the only true currency in life is time well spent."