Self-care is never a selfish act - it is only good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others.

Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.

Community is a place where the connections felt in our hearts make themselves known in the bonds between people, and where the tuggings and pullings of those bonds keep opening our hearts.

I now know myself to be a person of weakness and strength, liability and giftedness, darkness and light. I now know that to be whole means to reject none of it but to embrace all of it.

One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person's pain without trying to "fix" it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person's mystery and misery.

We are here not only to transform the world but also to be transformed.

Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you.

Community doesn't just create abundance - community is abundance. If we could learn that equation from the world of nature, the human world might be transformed.

At its deepest level, I think teaching is about bringing people into communion with each other, with yourself as the teacher, and with the subject you are teaching.

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

Violence is what happens when we don't know what else to do with our suffering.

Charlie had kissed a lot of guys. And Connor's kiss had been the best ever. Ever, ever, ever.

My conscience is crosswired with my sweat glands, but there's a short in the system and I break out over things I didn't do, which only makes me look more suspect.

And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.

Every healthy man can do without food for two days — but without poetry, never!

But we have a war of ideals and ideas, and that is to sell democracy.

The Artist's Way is a spiritual journey, a pilrimage home to the self.

I thought acting was what grownups did. It was such a part of my childhood. I was already in love with performing before I knew there were other options. By then, it was too late.

The world needs an enema.

Study everything, join nothing.

Allah is al-Kareem, so if He withholds from you it is not on account of stinginess. It is on account of His generosity. He withholds to give.