When loneliness comes stalking, go into the fields, consider the orderliness of the world.

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.

There’s just as much money to be made in the wreck of a civilization as in the upbuilding of one.

The shortest path is no always the fastest.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

I cant live without activity; I cant be sedentary.

Everybody wants to be somebody. The thing you have to do is give them confidence they can. You have to give a kid a dream.

The future is an infinite succession of presents.

We are free when we are not the slave of our impulses, but rather their master. Taking inward distance, we thus become the authors of our own dramas rather than characters in them.

I learned that there are two things that kids really like: movement and love. Happy kids move; unhappy, they don't move.

The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life.

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.