Read, Read, and then Read some more. Always Read. Find the voices that speak most to YOU. This is your pleasure and blessing, as well as responsibility!

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.

Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

There is a place to stand where you can see so many lights you forget you are one of them.

... the real heroes of race and culture would always be the people who stepped out of their own line to make a larger circle.

You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.

This is the world I want to live in. The shared world.

Being good felt like a heavy coat, so I took it off.

Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.

Energy is everything. Rubbing happy and sad together creates energy.

She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one.

Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the spiritualization of cruelty.

Things taste sweeter when you have some hunger left to linger. You feel it hunting your head for buried things

In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.

The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat the world as it is: a sheer mystery.

The lens is a tyranny.

It never does much good to find out why you can't; put your effort into what you can do.

Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.

All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.

A movie is something you see, cinema is something that’s made.