He is exactly the poem I wanted to write.

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.

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

The first thing every mage should learn is that magic makes fools of us. Now you may call yourself a mage. You have learned the most important lesson.

Some memories find a permanent place in the heart, and we remember those times as being sunlit and beautiful

We ignore the Holy Spirit when we position ourselves at the center of life. - From the Book: Removing Your Shame Label.

If you're worried about life-work balance, something is probably wrong with your life or your work. Instead of agonizing over balance, get excited and create change.

I am stronger than words and I am bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart.

I'm sorry, Mankind can't get to the phone right now, cause he's got The Rock's foot in his mouth!

There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.

When I'm onstage I just want to feel as comfortable as I possibly can.

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.