The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.

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.

We can learn a lot from animals, if we're prepared to accept that they may just know more about life than what we do.

The one, who doesn’t break your heart, will break your balls.

I am grateful to all my readers

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.

You must either give up your sins or give up all hope of heaven.

I'm busy communicating ideas.... I want you to know what I'm thinking. If you feel a connection, good. If you don't, fine.

The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.

Grandma told me all about it, Told me so I couldn't doubt it, How she danced, my grandma danced; long ago.

A puny body weakens the soul.

In my view, republican primary debates ought to be moderated by people who would vote in a primary.