Intuition is a heart message minus the static.

Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open- hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand.

Whether we give away too much or too little of ourselves, our vitality dwindles.

You don't have to let yourself be terrorized by other people's expectations of you.

Abundance is, in large part, an attitude.

An essential part of a happy, healthy life is being of service to others.

One of the most crippling things we can do to ourselves is expect someone else to make us happy

Wolves together stand howling soft and loud at light, singing family songs.

The veil between us and the divine is more permeable than we imagine.

Write down what you feel guilty about. Now, with the biggest, reddest marker you can find, cross it out-delete it.

Periods of change are full of paradoxes. They're difficult but exciting, frightening but freeing. Letting go of old patterns that no longer work for us is exhilarating.

You were the sun, and I was crashing into you.

There is something more beautiful than a beautiful thing and that is a beautiful thing which has a beautiful reflection on the water!

Two heads are better than one, not because either is infallible, but because they are unlikely to go wrong in the same direction.

Only photography has been able to divide human life into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence.

I basically don't do that well with children, although my sister says I'm a great aunt.

I choose to write characters from the inside because I feel like that's the way I'm gonna get the most honest version of them.

America under Barack Obama has become a defensive, reactive and weaker country both at home and abroad.

Scarlatti [Kirkpatrick] started writing sonatas when he was 66 and the idea that he ran off 500 or so after he was 66 was just too much for me to resist. It's just great.

I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is.

…it is so much better to work for others than for one's self alone.