the stars began to burnthrough the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voicewhich you slowlyrecognized as your own

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.

My brain? That's my second favorite organ.

When it comes to compounding, don't trust your intuition - you have no idea how powerful it is.

Life isn't about just having dreams, it's all about transforming them into reality.

Once a man takes honesty as his ideal, he cannot confine himself to showing the pleasant and reasonable side of his nature.

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

Sports are supposed to be fun, and so I have fun with the way I dress.

Unity is the ultimate goal of all the ways of God.

In order to succeed in the world people do their upmost to appear successful.

I'm not the one who was elected." Although she disagreed with her husband on "a lot of issues," she emphasized, "I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view.

All human stories are interesting. You don't put a kid in a show because you need a device. They have a story, too.