Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed.

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.

Leaders must served and not to be served as demonstrated by Jesus Christ, the Saviour.

The final tormenting, unanswerable question: what is 'success' in mourning?

There's always the option of deciding for yourself who you are and what you'll become.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

I came back [to Beijing ] because that's the only time I had an excuse to come back, or otherwise I would never have a reason to come back.

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.

Nobody has any security in loving me.

The right way to play golf is to go up and hit the bloody thing.

It's a funny thing, character, the way it brands people as they age, rising from within to leave its scar.

I told Pat I want to be him for Halloween. I almost got hit and I told Pat I should stop teasing him.