You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

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.

Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

Love finds lazy writers And makes example out of them Nailing them in history

In our civilization men are afraid they will not be men enough and women are afraid they might be considered only women.

There is an innate decorum in man, and it is not fair to thrust Truth upon people when they don't expect it. Only the very generous are ready for Truth impromptu.

While we live, let us live.

Better grounded emotionally through patience, we become stronger mentally and spiritually, and tend to be healthier physically.

After 9/11, we did see Palestinian terrorism in the context of all terrorism.

I've never been someone to count lines, look at it that way.

Idiotically, it occurred to me that my pink underwear didn’t match my purple bra, as if boys even notice such things.

When you pass through the fire, you pass through humble.