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

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.

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

Trust to some was placing all your insecurities and beliefs in one single person, and hoping he or she wouldn’t squash them.

If you want vampires and werewolves, faeries, fallen angels or zombies, you won't find them here. I know a real-life monster.

When Rip Torn dies - heaven forbid - but when he dies, you'll only have to write RIP Torn.

Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society.

By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress.

A vision is not something we make up, it's something we are MADE OF.

We can and do control the direction of our own evolution.

It's my calling to tell stories. It's the one thing that scratches the itch for me.

Is still fulfilling its social function in supplying the consumers with more, better and cheaper goods.

Most of the films that I've written, made in my life, I've written. Not all, but most I would say.