“Bend when you must. Pull when you must. Both are an offering. When you bend, be at peace; when you pull, do so gently.”

“You are not as insignificant as you have often been told, nor are you any more significant than you have often told yourself.”

“Mystery, like faith, defies human logic.”

“When you're rich you don't write checks.”

“To achieve anything, you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster.”

“When I eat, everything tastes so good I can't get all the taste out of it; when I look at something-say, the lake-the waves are so green and the foam so white that it seems I can't look at it hard enough; there seems to be something there that I can't get at. And even when I'm with you, I can't seem to be with you...enough.”

“When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you”