One man wrote me, saying, 'You know who you are? You're nothing but a Captain Bly pissing up a drainpipe!'

To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.

... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.

We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again.

The door to the soul is unlocked; you do not need to please the doorkeeper, the door in front of you is yours, intended for you, and the doorkeeper obeys when spoken to.

Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.

We make the path by walking.

It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.

There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve, I want to tie the two arms together, And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags.

You can receive $900 or even $1, 000 but when you don't appreaciate this money they don't have value.

Such a distant, forgotten thing, this Light.

Regret

Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer screen hundreds of miles away.

He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them.

You are creative. Your creativity may be in a deep sleep, but it is there. All you have to do is wake it up and put it to use.

The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.

Jesus has made Himself the Bread of Life to give us life. Night and day, He is there. If you really want to grow in love, come back to the Eucharist, come back to that Adoration.

American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen.

If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.