Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious 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.

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.

I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.

A man is known by the company he keeps.

The less one, as a result of objective or subjective conditions, has to come into contact with people, the better off one is for it.

...if I die suddenly, my gravestone might appropriately offer this insight into my departure: "God got tired." I require lots of work.

There are people who live inside their heads and their intellects. It's something one is born with and stuck with. It's not something you make a decision about.

every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer . . .

Now you know " the crow whispered as it sat on his shoulder. "Now you know why you must live." "Why " Bran said not understanding falling falling. "Because winter is coming.

I often ask students: 'Is this what you would show Tom Ford?' and they say: 'No, we'd have done more work' or 'We'd have dressed better.' So I say: 'Why don't you do that here?'

Mr. D," Grover asked timidly, "if you're not going to eat it, could I have your Diet Coke can?

Most people are brought to faith in Christ not by argument for it but by exposure to it.

I didn’t even know I could write music, but somehow Walt did. He tapped my hidden talents.