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

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.

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.

When you listen generously to people they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

There is a design behind the world that we are living in, which is veiled to most of us most of the time, but every once in a while, you catch a glimpse of it.

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself

The secret to feeling attractive, and to being attractive, is the confidence that comes from knowing who you are and what you believe in.

All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands.

To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world.

Just like I believe God is everywhere, I believe that whether it's nature, whether it's sitting on a bike in spin class, that can be church, too, for me.

Health system development is a key to effective detection, response, and control of any outbreak.

I've known Johnny Depp since I was 19.

To be 'in the will of God' is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart.