If we fear loss enough, in the end the things we possess will come to possess us.

Of course love is never earned. It is a grace we give one another. Anything we need to earn is only approval.

Facts bring us to knowledge, but stories lead to wisdom.

Belief traps or frees us.

Most of the things that give life its depth, meaning, and value are impervious to science.

Medicine is as close to love as it is to science, and its relationships matter even at the edge of life itself.

Inner peace is more a question of cultivating perspective, meaning, and wisdom even as life touches you with its pain.

We burn out not because we don't care but because we don't grieve. We burn out because we have allowed our hearts to become so filled with loss that we have no room left to care.

For where belief dwells, the spider may not stir, neither by day nor by night.

Indeed, I find that distance lends perspective and I often write better of a place when I am some distance from it. One can be so overwhelmed by the forest as to miss seeing the trees.

With great hotness comes great responsibility.

If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen.

Wildflower corners are easy to maintain, but once gone, they are hard to rebuild.

The most important thing in business is honesty, integrity, hard work familynever forgetting where we came from.

Great souls endure in silence.

Reading is one of the most individual things that happens. So every reader is going to read a piece in a slightly different way, sometimes a radically different way.

I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.