Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.

I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.

One day can bend your life.

We do not realize the sound the world makes -- unless, of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds like an orchestra.

We don't see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become.

It’s funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said without a doubt descending, because ascending you were so focused on reaching the top, you avoided mistakes. The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature,” he said. “You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.

when he smiles it's as if you'd just told him the first joke on earth.