On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means. But nobody is asking, How does it feel?

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.

He can switch from one view to another with frightening ease. I think it is a sign of being accustomed to such power that the truth does not matter because you cannot be contradicted.

There is a 100% assurance that what your friend’s enemy tells you about your friend is false. What your failure tells you about your passion is fake. Don’t give up!

What experience cannot teach you now, mentors and books can foretell! To take the lead in whatever you do, be willing to learn and educate yourself regularly!

I know that music is my life. It is my strong point. That's my love.

There is no delight the equal of dread

Hell is more like boredom, or not having enough to do, and too much time to contemplate one's deficiencies.

Nothing can occur in your life experience without the invitation of it through your thought.

Luxury bags make your life more pleasant, make you dream, give you confidence, and show your neighbors you are doing well.

I'd come to respect the bag.

We can rationalize anything and easily quit on ourselves. Leadership is refusing to quit on others.