For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,' asks the Aztec poet, 'that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?'

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

What makes one person approachable and another one not? That simple difference alone can make or break your success in your life, in your relationships, and in your career.

Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote.

The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work.

You always want your kids to step up at the moment of truth.

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?

As far as I'm concerned, there is only one absolute: God is love.

We can only be faithful to what we remember, and we remember only what we have known.

Every long travel changes man!

Or-but this more rarely happened-she would be convulsed with a rage of grief, and sob out her love for her mother, in broken words, and seem intent on proving that she had a heart, by breaking it.