It has been said that sometimes we need a story more than food in order to live. p 374

Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.

The secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company.

Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar things in new ways.

Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns.

The willingness to consider possibility requires a tolerance of uncertainty.

Our listening creates a sanctuary for the homeless parts within another person.

Big messages come in small packages. All it may take to restore someone's trust in life may be returning a lost earring or a dropped glove.

Life is as complex as we are. Sometimes our vulnerability is our strength, our fear develops our courage, and our woundedness is the road to our integrity. It is not an either/or world.

In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.

Sooner or later we will come to the edge of all that we can control and find life, waiting there for us.

I never trust frank and simple people whose stories hold together.

Often the best gifts we can give each other cost nothing.

May the Father judge him justly.

I think it's the things we don't talk about that make us old before out time.

Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge.

Being athletic has really become a big part of my career.

There haven't been many credible electronic covers records.

A common quality I see of people who are successful is that they are voracious readers.

Not to say "trophies" aren't wonderful, but they should not be your driving force.