Life finds its balance. Children grow up. Second chances come along. In the meantime, I could choose to savor this moment. What good would it do to allow annoyance to interfere with gratitude?

Alone-in moments of prayer or meditation, or simply in stillness-we breathe more deeply, see more fully, hear more keenly. We notice more, and in the process, we return to what is sacred.

Solitude is the soul's holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead.

Growth and transformation occur not by changing who we are, but as we summon the courage to be who we are.

It has taken awhile, but I certainly do know it now ­­– the most wonderful gift I had, the gift I finally learned to cherish above all else, was the gift of all those perfectly ordinary days.

I can only bring peace to my children when I possess it myself.

We are the windows through which our children first see the world. Let us be conscious of the view.

Now I see that the journey was never meant to lead to some new and improved version of me; that it has always been about coming home to who I already am.

In stillness, we find our peace. Knowing peace at home, we bring peace into the world.

Stay focused on what is beautiful and abundant even as illness carves more and more of what you love away

When we focus on what is good and beautiful in someone, whether or not we think that they "deserve" it, the good and beautiful are strengthened merely by the light of our attention.

Journeys end in lovers meeting.

Red's had her day. It's time to give pink a go.

The surge in right-wing populism and the phenomenon of Trump are related. You can think of them together as the same problem.

So remember these two things: you are talented and you are original. Be sure of that. I say this because self-trust is one of the very most important things in writing.

That’s what makes a character interesting from an actor’s perspective - the more screwed up, the better.

A kind word will give more pleasure than a present.

Young people - there's been very little places in positions of authority in law enforcement for young people's skill sets, but the truth is we need them.

Plotinus is a neo-Platonist, so he would encourage us to go back to Plato.

For me, the American Dream was to go racing; for others, it's to pursue whatever their goals may be.

When you genuinely lose your illusions, you begin to marvel at things, because you don't have the answers any more.