Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.

Don't allow your rituals to become ruts.

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

Words empowered by justice can never be silenced.

The world is like a mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

The truth is the light and light is the truth.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life.

If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

In all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.