In Germany, they have great difficulty with anything that smacks of cultism or messianic leadership. You can't talk about leadership in its charismatic forms.

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.

You have no idea what you really are, " the Elder Wyrm went on, "or why you are special to the dragons of Talon.

What I've said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar.

It feels great to win and I can't be more thankful to the Lord for walking me through every step. God was and is so faithful every time.

Ballroom dancing is a contact sport. Rugby is a collision sport.

Life is bittersweet. Inside our heads, if we're lucky, we're the same kids as we were when we were young.

Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory.

A man's balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs.

When you grow up in the [film] industry, the director is your father. You follow your father's lead, but you make your own way.

Someone pays me a hundred bucks every Tuesday to DJ. I don't think I'll ever give that up.

I like to sing along to Annie Lennox and pretend to be as sassy as her.