There is only one question: / how to love this world.

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.

Always remember, animals can intimidate men with their strength but men cannot intimidate animals with their intelligence.

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

Art is not an end in itself but a means of addressing humanity.

I carry a lot of scars. I like the way that sounds. I carry a LOT of scars.

All real change requires risk. You must take risks every day of your life. You must get up each morning and ask...: What can I do that is different?

My wife ain't gonna make love to me if I got no money!

You can't change the past so change something you can. the future!

First we build people, then we build cars.

Politics is an obsolete way of doing things. Although it was good a hundred years ago, it has no place in today's high tech society.

Arnold Schwarzenegger made his tax returns public, [and] now there's a problem about him stretching the truth. Apparently under occupation he put down 'actor.'