time spent in being interrupted is not time lost. ... How do we know but that the interruption we snarl at is the most blessed thing that has come to us in long days?

Be wise in the use of time. The question in life is not "how much time do we have?" The question is "what shall we do with it?"

Value work. But not any kind of work. Ask yourself "Is the work vital, strengthening my own character, or inspiring others, or helping the world?".

Let us assume nothing, and we shall not be moritifed.

Whatever we really are, that let us be, in all fearlessness. Whatever we are not, that let us cease striving to be.

Every moment of worry weakens the soul for its daily combat.

Worry is spiritual nearsightedness, a fumbling way of looking at little things, and of magnifying their value.

Life is large. We cannot possibly grasp the whole of it in the few years that we have to live. What is vital? What is essential? What may we profitably let go?

It is not our failures that distress us so much as our idiocies.

Rather than being incensed by the nature of the bruise, maybe we should be inspired by the possibilities in the bruise.

I was my own boss, but that all changed the day I got married.

Trauma is nothing more than being stuck in what you believe.

You can start your day over anytime.

The man who tries to make the flag an object of a single party is a greater traitor to that flag than any man who fires at it.

I just want to do good work. That's all I want to do. I don't have big aspirations like being the President of the United States, I just want to do good work. That's all.

There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing.

I knew that I was choosing the road less traveled but I'm not walking it alone.

As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words.

Even if it's a "talking head documentary" about a social movement or something along those lines, I've always thought of editing the timing and the sense of the piece for the theatrical experience.