Every young person needs some adult who's just wild and crazy about them!

Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.

Community is a place where the connections felt in our hearts make themselves known in the bonds between people, and where the tuggings and pullings of those bonds keep opening our hearts.

I now know myself to be a person of weakness and strength, liability and giftedness, darkness and light. I now know that to be whole means to reject none of it but to embrace all of it.

One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person's pain without trying to "fix" it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person's mystery and misery.

We are here not only to transform the world but also to be transformed.

Self-care is never a selfish act - it is only good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others.

Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you.

Community doesn't just create abundance - community is abundance. If we could learn that equation from the world of nature, the human world might be transformed.

At its deepest level, I think teaching is about bringing people into communion with each other, with yourself as the teacher, and with the subject you are teaching.

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

They say that 'life is too short, ' but I must say that if you live each day happily and productively, it is quite long enough.

It doesn't get any easier. You have to stay close to the people you trust so they can put you back together again.

Father made the most popular cars in the world; I want to make the best.

Of my death, tell them i have done my duty

He was sick with lust and mesmerized with regret

I ask all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia.

The best gift you can give yourself is the gift of possibility.

I like being around actors. Imagine not liking actors.

Being the foundation is what I live for, some people call it being in the pocket, some people call it a groove. I think it's the heartbeat. There's nothing that feels better than that.

The coaches are working with me every day. And if you feel like the coach is behind you, you'll take some chances.?