“The past is not what it was.”

Back in the old days, we were often compared to Led Zeppelin. If we did something with harmony, it was the Beach Hoys. Something heavy was Led Zeppelin.

Now I am sober and there’s only the hangover and the memory of love.

Every moment is made glorious by the light of love.

"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral."

It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills. In the end even war ran up the white flag. Or so he hoped. He hoped that in the end even war surrendered

Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.

Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

In the end, we’ll all become stories.

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.

The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years.