You can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it.

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.

Talking to people who are different from us can be radically transformative. It's the antidote to fear.

My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known as the COPS program under the Clinton administration.

I hate to ask about the title, because it makes it seem like that is all I've read of the book.

Your true value is determined by how much more you give in value than you take in payment.

There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.

Not everything comes together in the best way ever every day. It just doesn't.

We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help.

If a shadow is a two-dimensional projection of the three-dimensional world, then the three-dimensional world as we know it is the projection of the four-dimensional Universe.

I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me.