So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life.

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.

Happiness is a spiritual concept and his source is hidden in God

You two are children almost grown. Your hearts have not hardened to the realities of the world. Your dreams have not fallen through your fingers. You still know hope.

Isn't there some truth in all fiction?" "There's some fiction in all truth too.

I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't.

My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.

The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.

I look at a woman and I don't see what's wrong with her. I see what's right.

I learned that monthly payments are the cornerstone of everything in the automobile business.

We think people who make a lot of income and have a lot of net-worth are pretty well served.

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.