If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it.

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.

If you're going to be fighting anyway, why not fight to win and not just to survive.

Like as thou canst do none of these things that I have spoken of, even so canst thou not find out my judgment, or in the end the love that I have promised unto my people.

Sense will buy you more than dollars.

Reading maketh a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man.

You do a movie and, even if it's not a comedy or it's not an action film, you get a little taste of it, and then I want to do it full force.

To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.

I think luck is a big part of people who are successful in L.A.

Gather the roses of life today.

Education is the foundation of success. Just as scholastic skills are vitally important, so are financial skills and communication skills.

Until you show you can handle what you’ve got, you won’t get any more!