Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.

Stop thinking, and end your problems.

How old are you?”“Old enough to know better, but still young enough to do it again.

His impatience for sleep often frightened that very sleep away.

Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God not of the answer.

You can just be your self’s stranger, never its friend, because you are mortal and it is immortal!

You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.

I've never formally trained in acting, so I'm very instinctual and visceral with decisions.

The great modern heresy in poetry is to confuse the use we make of words in a poem with modalities of speech...For true poetry is never speech but always a song.

I'm officially middle-aged. I don't need drugs anymore, thank God. I can get the same effect just by standing up real fast.

I lied to you about a lot of things....but I meant every apology.

Lay in the weeds and wait, and when you get your chance to say something, say something good.