Don't we all die someday and someday comes all too soon? What will you do with your own wild, glorious chance at this thing we call life.

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.

He had never smoked but then had he ever loved? Life made him love and love made him smoke.

If better were within, better would come out.

It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death.

It is much harder to lie to someone's face. But. It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.

Gratitude is like the good faith of traders: it maintains commerce, and we often pay, not because it is just to discharge our debts, but that we may more readily find people to trust us.

My demon's a girl? Gideon said, astonished.

Kill the head, the body will die.

Good advice is never as helpful as an interest-free loan.

The Democrats are having all kinds of problems uniting people here, and Barack Obama is the lead unifier, and it ain't going to happen.

Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.