Be good-natured and untidy in your exuberance.

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.

What's that you're holding?" he asked, noticing the pamphlet, still rolled up in her left

The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it.

There is a line between sexualityand promiscuity, and the line is closer to celibacy than not.

I was handed a tough life lesson at a very early age.

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat But to lie there - that's a disgrace.

A mathematician ... has no material to work with but ideas, and so his patterns are likely to last longer, since ideas wear less with time than words.

As a Christian, I think it’s really important to find a man of God to trust and be supportive of me.

We have white people problems in America. You know what that is? That's when your life is amazing, so you just make stuff up to get worried about.

Only the dead know Brooklyn.

We're actors. We're the opposite of people.