Wherever there is water there is someone drowning.

To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.

... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.

We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again.

The door to the soul is unlocked; you do not need to please the doorkeeper, the door in front of you is yours, intended for you, and the doorkeeper obeys when spoken to.

Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.

We make the path by walking.

It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.

There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve, I want to tie the two arms together, And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags.

She was a poem and a painting too. Everything she said sounded like a song, every silence was the music too.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

Today’s problem is that people are quickly falling in love and falling out of it just as quickly.

I don't remember one thing I learned in school.

No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life.

At that age you think boys have as much personality as coat hangers and, you don't notice their looks. Then you grow up.

I don't exercise. I'm skinny fat. I worry about being too skinny. You should see my brother, he's, like, emaciated. We both just happen to be really skinny.

You can choose to acknowledge that some of your old beliefs about God and about Life are no longer working.

Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.

I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.