It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.

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.

Are you following the sheep to the slaughter house, or leading them to the pasture?

Enlightenment is not about cocooning one’s self, but about integrating more fully with both your self and life.

...we are our flaws, but they don't have to define us as either good or evil.

The fundamentals that founded our great nation included the freedom of speech and religion.

I live a great life. I can't complain. I'm healthy, my family's good and there's nothing I can really complain about.

Those of you who have fallen prey to any kind of addiction, there is hope because God loves all of His children

Do not wait for me to do something for your rights. It's your world and you can change it.

I'm just 'bout that action boss.

Because normally with Western cuisine, you'll serve vegetables separate from the meat, so kids will eat the meat and never touch the vegetables.

When I first registered to vote I registered as a Democrat.