Imagination is better than a sharp instrument. To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

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 want to have a big and strong church, then you need to build a prayer wall of defense in the spiritual realm...

When I first met him, he was everything I wanted to be, but over time, he showed me how I wanted to be myself, and that was how I fell in love with him.

Problems are inevitable. Staying in control of your emotions is optional.

(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it

You know what they call the guy who finishes last in medical school? They call him Doctor!

Again, if I was going to call Romney and the Republicans stupid, I'm certainly not going to call the Democrats and President Obama stupid.

It wasn't through choice that I became a mum at 36. I wanted to be a young mum but things never worked out for me.

Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others.

A ready person never needs to get ready.

I have to be more assertive-I have take more control at crunch time.