To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.

We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?' If you ever get these questions in the wrong order you are in trouble.

To love is to return to a home we never left, to remember who we are.

The best practice is to follow the advice posted on every railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen.

Compassion begins with the acknowledgment of the single inescapable truth that is the foundation for the possibility of love between human beings - an awareness of the tragic sense of life.

Trust what moves you most deeply.

Down to earth advice about the path that leads away from the kingdom of the hollow men.

The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble.

The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair.

Our society has been eaten up by the economic view of things, which routinely forces us to work at jobs that don't mean anything.

Make hope a way toward optimism

Magic to be its best must be unexpected".

That's the thing with me being a former athlete: in the way I attack characters and attack poetry is from the base of being an athlete.

I think there is a need for something completely new. Something that is too different, too unexpected, to be accepted as yet.

To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.

So, good news/bad news: good news that I'm progressing; bad news that life is short and art is long.

I was somewhat confused when senator [Bernie] Sanders said, well, you know, Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign, they're part of the establishment.

As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.

I dont want a broken heart because Ill lose the pieces.

Consoling a miserable soul, wiping the tears of a crying person is greater than any worldly achievement.