You never know / What opportunity / Is going to travel to you, / Or through you.

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.

God's opinions of you are the only unchangeable realities of your life.

God answered prayers first by teaching the need to ask, second by using friends as holy messengers.

Find gratitude in the little things and your well of gratitude will never run dry.

She was surprised to find that something from deep down in herself welled into her eyes and burned her cheeks: a few poor tears shed by one who never cried!

Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.

Obviously like many of us, I love music, and I hate music sometimes.

Age doesn't matter. Obstacles don't matter. Winning is the challenge. Bottom line, inspiring others is the goal.

Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.

Try drawing or painting a scene you're working on. Often this will help free up you imagination.

I don't get recognized too much, which is cool because, you know, I don't want people to be overwhelmed.