As the saying goes, you might as well be yourself; everyone else is taken.

To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.

... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.

We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again.

The door to the soul is unlocked; you do not need to please the doorkeeper, the door in front of you is yours, intended for you, and the doorkeeper obeys when spoken to.

Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.

We make the path by walking.

It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.

There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve, I want to tie the two arms together, And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags.

Aura, I'm really patient, but I'm not a bloody saint.

Sometimes the anger directed at another is actually anger toward the self.

Spend some quiet time each day to get closer to your positive inner-self. It is always calling for your undivided attention.

There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.

There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.]

I went to college somewhere between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire... but I had gone to a women's college.

My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting.

The whole basis for our relationship with God is rooted and grounded in grace, in that which is not earned.

It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.

I had to train myself to focus my attention. I became very visual and learned how to create mental images in order to comprehend what I read.