I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material 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.

I appreciate my role as an actor much more after I direct because it's just easier.

It's not curators, it's not critics, it's not the public, it's not collectors who find great artists - it's other artists.

All the riches of the world are not of sufficient value to redeem one perishing soul.

Donald Trump thinks belittling women makes him bigger. We need to stand up and be clear that we don't want this, we need to celebrate diversity. America is great because America is good.

In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control.

Without entrepreneurs, economies become poor and weak. The old will not exist, the new can't enter

Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.

It Is possible to live in peace.

In Christ alone I place my trust And find my glory In the power of the Cross.

Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.