Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred... Now is the time for you to deeply compute the impossibility that there is anything but grace.

Your love Should never be offered to the mouth of a Stranger, Only to someone Who has the valor and daring To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife Then weave them into a blanket To protect you.

Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.

I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'

I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

I am in love with every church And mosque And temple And any kind of shrine Because I know it is there That people say the different names Of the One God.

Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.

Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of light...And let it breathe.

This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.

You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.

It is not what we have that matters

Life is only worth living if it is used to produce products for the good of humanity.

If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.

To be great at anything that you do, you have to love it! but also give it your all..

He who understands humanity seeks solitude

Start where you are, use what you have.

When I started out as a little kid, I didn't say 'I just want to run football.' I wanted to be a great athlete.

Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

Why not see which is brighter: your aura or the sun?

I've had a man and I've had a woman, and there's got to be something better.