The world is like an eye, a beard, a spot of beauty and eyebrow, Where each thing is neatly in place.

Your love Should never be offered to the mouth of a Stranger, Only to someone Who has the valor and daring To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife Then weave them into a blanket To protect you.

Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.

I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'

I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

I am in love with every church And mosque And temple And any kind of shrine Because I know it is there That people say the different names Of the One God.

Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.

Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of light...And let it breathe.

This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.

You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.

Whatever role you play, play it to the hilt.

Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

But Doc had one mental habit he could not get over. When anyone asked a question, Doc thought he wanted to know the answer.

I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up.

When I’ve been unsuccessful, I’ve been controlled. When I’ve been successful, I’ve been in control.

When actors give their input, it can be very ego-driven, and directors are scared of that.

Raising the minimum wage allows business people to stop thinking about workers simply as costs to be cut and allows you to start thinking about workers as customers to be cultivated.

You shouldn't reward me for endangering your life, you know. Think of the precedent you're setting.

There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will know that we have lived.