You ache with loneliness one night so much you weep and I say 'here is a rope tie it around me Hafiz will be your companion for life'.

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.

There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.

Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart.

Experience taught me to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper.

I would encourage you as a screenwriter to trust your story and don't make notes for the actors or don't make notes for the reader.

The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-context and to chronicle it.

One day I noticed that I could go on working my art motif no matter what the weather might be. I no longer needed the sun, for I took my light everywhere with me.

My most difficult opponent is myself. When I am playing I often involuntarily make a world champion out of a candidate master.

Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.

A Not So Big House feels more spacious than many of its oversized neighbors because it is space with substance, all of it in use every day.

It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.