You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.

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.

Run my dear, from anything that may not strengthen your precious budding wings. Run like hell my dear, from anyone likely to put a sharp knife into the sacred, tender vision of your beautiful heart.

Success is the byproduct of desires, purpose-oriented actions, and persistence.

Everything is just how I imagined it, yet everything is new

On the first day, man created God

Nowadays what isn't worth saying is

I think you always feel like you're about a hair's breadth away from being a bad actor anyway... It's not too hard to let the rope go slack, so to speak.

Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.

It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.

Ive always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses.

Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks.