Being a good parent will necessarily break our hearts as we watch a child grow and eventually choose their own way, even through many of the same heartbreaks we have traversed.

What if the world is holding its breath - waiting for you to take the place that only you can fill?

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.

The antidote to exhaustion isn't rest. It's wholeheartedness.

Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us.

To have a firm persuasion in our work - to feel that what we do is right for ourselves and good for the world at exactly the same time - is one of the great triumphs of human existence.

Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you.

Our work is to make ourselves visible in the world. This is the soul's individual journey, and the soul would much rather fail at its own life than succeed at someone else's.

Enough. These few words are enough If not these few words, this breath If not this breath, this sitting here This opening to the life we have refused again and again Until now Until now.

I want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living falling toward the center of your longing.

The courageous conversation is the one you don't want to have.

Don't be afraid to show you soul, we need plenty of soul to show in this world.

Success doesn’t happen by accident. You make it happen. But before you reach that road to victory, some things about yourself have to be changed.

For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases

To be able to use leisure intelligently will be the last product of an intelligent civilization.

Armenia was always a minority nation. The Armenians were annihilated by the Russians and then by the Turks.

My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!

The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.

It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.

When December comes, can The Nutcracker be far behind? No, it cant - not in America, anyway.