Try to live as if there were a God

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.

As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive.

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

The journey is my home.

If we look long enough and hard enough ... we will begin to see the connections that bind us together, and when we recognize those connections, we will begin to change the world.

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

Reality is the completion of experience.

There's adventure in the air. . . and cake to be eaten.

One hates a person for the same reason one loves him

A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.

Where there's marriage without love there will be love without marriage.

What is madness To those who only observe, is often wisdom To those to whom it happens.

I'd rather hire someone who is extremely disciplined and process-oriented, than someone with all of the experience in the world.

I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous.

Scientific monitoring is going to be terrifically important, because whatever steps we take ... we will have to monitor those steps in order to know if they're actually working.

If ever you get to be my age," said the old woman, "you will know all there is to know about regrets, and you will know that one more, here or there, will make no difference in the long run.