Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone.

What if the world is holding its breath - waiting for you to take the place that only you can fill?

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.

The antidote to exhaustion isn't rest. It's wholeheartedness.

Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us.

To have a firm persuasion in our work - to feel that what we do is right for ourselves and good for the world at exactly the same time - is one of the great triumphs of human existence.

Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you.

Our work is to make ourselves visible in the world. This is the soul's individual journey, and the soul would much rather fail at its own life than succeed at someone else's.

Enough. These few words are enough If not these few words, this breath If not this breath, this sitting here This opening to the life we have refused again and again Until now Until now.

I want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living falling toward the center of your longing.

The courageous conversation is the one you don't want to have.

Into the sky to win or die.

You can't miss me, because I was never there.

You put the movie out and then it's up to you guys to go oh that was good.

Normal means lack of imagination and creativity.

If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts.

I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.

I still don't know how to cook and that's just unacceptable.

I think God is a pretty fair guy, so tithing is a pretty fair process.

What find you better or more honourable than age? Take the preheminence of it in everything, in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree.

I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.