...whoever you are, not matter how lonely the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh & exciting - over & over announcing your place in the family of things.

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.

Buying a bicycle is a momentous event, akin to marriage: you are acquiring a partner.

When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.

The fourth largest city in America is under water tonight and we don't know when we will see it again. We don't know how long it will take for the waters to subside.

On the best tactic when playing alongside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar- Just give him the ball.

Ever wonder how many angels you have? All of them. They insisted.

A Christian who is not a revolutionary today isn't a Christian

After a decade in a club it's quite normal and necessary that you seek and take a new challenge.

You got a fast car But is it fast enough so we can fly away We gotta make a decision We leave tonight or live and die this way.

Its haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.

Learning is but an adjunct to ourself, And where we are our learning likewise is.