Watch how your enthusiasm can light up another’s fire. This is how we wake up the world.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Carve out and claim the time to care for yourself and kindle your own fire.

Become a vessel for the divine.

Overall, always strive to be genuine — about who you are, what you offer, and why you do what you do.

If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.

In some company it’s perfectly all right to prick your finger, but very bad form to finger your prick.

Modern culture anesthetizes the mind while mainlining the soul with emotional experiences that keep the worldling believing he is really living.

I will be glad to go. There is no poetry here. It is as I have always set forth: joy comes of its own free will

Prioritizing hurt, a reminder that the clock was ticking, that some things would be left undone.

In the whole history of my letters, of my liking boys, not once has a boy liked me back at the same time as I liked him. It was always me alone, longing after a boy, and that was fine, that was safe

As a professional, as a person, and as a player, I think he's fantastic. It's like he's dancing the tango. I just love how he plays football so elegantly. To me, Andres is Don Andres.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

To will everything that God wills, and to will it always, in all circumstances and without reservations: that is the kingdom of God which is entirely within.

I felt like I was staring out across an ocean that I was going to have to swim from shore to shore before I could rest again.