When it's over I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real.

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.

Some people were just getting on with their lives, chatting, being young. It simply wouldn't do.

Like walking through a door. Our relationship immediately attained a sepia tone: the past.

When you are obedient to God, He fills you with His Spirit and empowers you to do all He asks of you.

You’ve gotta taste the light, like my friend and fellow shooter Chip Maury says. And when you see light like this, trust me, it’s like a strawberry sundae with sprinkles.

If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions.

When one is the agent of order and civilisation in the universe, one doesn't stoop to negotiate. Especially with nonhumans.

Afghanistan has other enormous challenges as well, including a political system that is still very much developing, although there has been some progress in the past several years.

When the ladies see an athlette walking around, they think, Well, he got the cocaine, so let's go get high with him.

I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.

We live not in our moments or our years: The present we fling from us like the rind Of some sweet future, which we after find Bitter to taste.