My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.

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.

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.

The Government is making a fool of itself by attributing all terrorism and acts against the government only to one single patriot

Step out from the crowd because it'll lead you nowhere..!

it’s easy to get outside yourself when you’re thinking about someone else.

I've been a biker, I've been a convict, I've been a husband, father, and son.

The American people want peace. They have long since ceased to talk of a hard or a soft peace for Germany.

I think kids in general are much more capable of understanding the idea of being transgender than adults.

Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule. [Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.]

Crimes generally punish themselves.

Kids can still call me Shaq, but adults should call me Dr. O'Neal.