To interrupt the writer from the line of thought is to wake the dreamer from the dream. The dreamer cannot enter that dream, precisely as it was unfolding, ever again.

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.

Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.

A Christian funeral should be a coronation ceremony, a statement to the world about eternal life.

The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.

If you talk to most people under 30, they don't read a newspaper.

There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.

Cynicism is cheap - you can buy it at any Monoprix store - it's built into all poor-quality goods.

Personally, I've always loved the curvy look.

All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.

It is important for me to share my experiences in order to create strength and hope for others. No matter how far down you go, it is never too late to come back.

And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.