When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more, And be happy.

Your love Should never be offered to the mouth of a Stranger, Only to someone Who has the valor and daring To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife Then weave them into a blanket To protect you.

Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.

I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'

I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

I am in love with every church And mosque And temple And any kind of shrine Because I know it is there That people say the different names Of the One God.

Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.

Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of light...And let it breathe.

This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.

You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.

Age is a hell of a price to pay for wisdom

The Brain is a chewed gum.

The first time I was told that I had a brain injury, I immediately thought to myself, "I'm not crazy.

Traveling takes a lot out of you.

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

Heaven wills our happiness, allows our doom.

There are those that even God exploits, and they are prophets and saints in the vacuousness of the world.

I am who I am. I'm going to speak my mind.

We in this House are role models. People all over the world watch us and study us. When we fall short, they lose hope. When we fail, they despair.

Each person shows something different, in every challenge that they come across.