Music: what so many sentences aspire to be.

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.

But marrying within one's own family can get monotonous. One has heard all the same family stories, knows all the jokes and all the same recipes. No novelty.

He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form.

Plan for each episode to be a satisfying experience, but still leave the audience thinking, 'Oh, my God! Now what?

There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.

There will be hunters and hunted, winners and losers. What counts in global competition is the right strategy and success.

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.

Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.

God must have loved the People in Power, for he made them so very like their own image of him.

The spiritual discipline of simplicity is not a lost dream, but a recurrent version throughout history. It can be recaptured today. It must be.

Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits.