Sing, if you can sing, and it not still be musical inside yourself.

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.

When a man is at his weakest is where he will find the greatest opportunity to become his strongest.

A prolonged unforgiveness is a prolonged destruction mindset

I doubt anything will really come of this lawsuit. First of all, it's a lawsuit. It involves a subpoena. And try to find a Republican who will be willing to be seen serving a black man.

What I'm going for with the string arrangements for my Antarctic symphony is a pun here.

It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back.

Little Bird if you do not sing for me, I will wait for you

Never had it occurred to me that the things that had happened to me...might be a kind of trauma.

Being active and good health is the most important beauty regime because that will affect you for the rest of your life.

Live each day as if it were your last. Learn as if you would live forever.

We affirm depth as the only pictorial and plastic form of space.