Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.

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.

Mindfulness helps us to focus on one goal at a time. It helps us to be more relaxed, patience and compassionate towards the goal.

As a child, I was bonkers for Christmas. The entire month of December, I couldn't sleep at night from anticipation.

Your dreamer may do without a creed, but he always wants a ritual.

I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.

I much prefer being in the studio or on stage and staying out of the mainstream really.

We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.

Though laughter is allowable, a horse-laugh is abominable.

Irrevence is another person's disrespect to your god; there isn't any word that tells what your disrespect to his god is.

I think you need to have a tax system that basically is flat, fair and simple. And - that you can put on a post card. I mean, even Timothy Geithner could do this one and get it on time.