Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

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.

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.

I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.

I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care plan.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

We have made a great effort to maintain all levels of Buddhist education; it has helped us have a kind of renaissance, really.

My family are doctors and pilots and people involved in indigenous First Nation land rights; not overtly artistic.

I guess subconsciously that all the great people you work with have an influence on you.

The Maria Mayer shell model suggestion in 1949 was a great triumph and fitted my belief that a nuclear shell model should represent a proper approach to understanding nuclear structure.

I’ve just had enough of people misrepresenting me. Get to know me and see who I am.

Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.

Islam cannot accept or agree to a situation which is half-Islam and half-Jahiliyya [separated from God].

People can only be found in what they do.