“When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.”

“If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them.”

“When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.”

“Because we all share this planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. This is not just a dream, but a necessity.”

“But writers experience the world and themselves in a unique way. We look for meaning. We see it even when we are not paying attention, which is seldom because, as writers, paying attention is what we do. We are scribes to the ticking of the days, and we have a job to do. We are not at peace unless we are doing it.”

“We pay for vice by the knowledge that we are wicked; we pay for pleasure when we find out too late that we are nothing.”