Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?

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.

DON'T BE A FOLLOWER, NOR TRY TO BE A BORROWER, MEND UR WAY, EVEN IT TAKE A DAY, IF U WISH TO BE A WINNER, UR DREAMS SHOULD BE BIGGER.

At some point in the last 20 years, the left moved to the center, and the right moved into a mental institution.

My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.

Love is pretty much a decision anyway. Just like happiness. You can decide to either love someone or not, be happy or not. The rest is just commitment to the idea.

True love never runs smooth, that's what they say, but true love is worth all the pain.

The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world.

I will not leave the Republican Party, ... The Republican Party is my home.

If you accept that security is a process, and if you can eliminate the human interaction or intervention in that process by automating more, that is a good thing.

Smaller movies are great because you don't have to argue with so many people all the time. But really I like arguing so there's a balance either way.

I would say my best decision I ever made was to pursue my dream and give it my all. Thankfully, I have not yet made really bad decisions, I'm the kind of person to play it on the safe side.