Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? / Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect?

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.

We were strange in loveher and I too wild to last too rare to die.

Every failure is an opportunity for your personal growth.

Fearlessly use the power of your will & determination to go forth in life, strengthened.

It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere.

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

If something is worth doing you may as well go heart and soul and boot leather.

Agribusinesses should never dictate the quality of school meals.

Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.

I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.

I have 3,000 penalty minutes. I don't need people dictating to me how to do my job.