When will you have a little pity for every soft thing that walks through the world, yourself included.

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.

The young princess was as beautiful as daylight. She was more beautiful even than the queen herself

Our success depends on the Holy Spirit, who lives and acts through us.

Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them.

...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.

The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of living as well as dying.

In my latter years I've decided that there's too much to keep track of when you go into the lying game. That becomes stressful and it's not for me anymore.

Democracy is always frustrating.

While someone can attempt to shame you, shame must also be accepted to be effective. We can't make you feel shame without your participation.

Sometimes God lets you hit rock bottom so that you will discover He is the Rock at the bottom.

Most of the collaborations of technology were done by teams...Collaboration is key to creativity