Our wounds are our sources of growth.

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.

Someone told me sleep was the cousin of death and followin’ the dollar finds nothin’ but stress.

Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.

No fairy godmother had ever spent time helping a poor and humble milk maid who was destined to die even poorer and humbler.

Few of us ever live in the present we are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

Gee, this isn't like I imagined it would be in the bathtub.

I was a die-hard fan of these books [The Hobbit] before the films ever came out. And when I say die-hard, I wasn't the person who could speak Elvish, but I really loved them.

I think all of us are shaped by the choices we make.

Jacob Zuma built a 2 million rand swimming pool, but no one in the family knows how to swim

I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.

If the law doesn't apply equally to everybody, then you don't really have a system of law.