What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?

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.

Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Childhood’s work is learning, and it is in his play...that the child works at his job.

A human life is a story told by God.

My iCloud keeps telling me to back it up, and I'm like, 'I don't know how to back you up. Do it yourself!'

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

This was the most emotional title of my career. I was the youngest champion, and now I'm the oldest.

So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

It's a simple solution. You change one thing, and suddenly you've changed everything.

Look well to the fire of your souls, for the tendency of fire is to go out.