A dog is adorable and noble, a dog is a true and loving friend. A dog is also a hedonist.

it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began.

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.

After all, it's the future of business communication that we're looking toward.

I was really beating myself up about performances and how I looked and this and that.

It's time to take the 'Men Only' sign off the White House door.

Laugh, and the world laughs with you: Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.

The key is to produce something that both pulls people together and gives them something to do.

Nothing lasts, you see, not even the thoughts inside you. And you musn't waste your time looking for them. Once a thing is gone, that is the end of it.

Always define WHAT you want to do with your life and WHAT you have to offer to the world, in terms of your favorite talents/gifts/skills-not in terms of a job-title.

Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason.

The only thing you'll find on the summit of Mount Everest is a divine view. The things that really matter lie far below.