The more we remember that life is a gift-that everything changes, we're not in control-the stronger our sense of well-being becomes.

Whatever it takes to break your heart and wake you up is grace.

You don't actually get over things… you incorporate them. They become part of everything you are. I don't mean that you walk about crying all the time. But you change.

joy is not just about being happy. Joy is a rigorous spiritual practice of saying yes to life on life’s terms,

The French have a term for this brazenness: je m’en foutisme, the brave art of not giving a damn.

joy is not just about being happy. Joy is a rigorous spiritual practice of saying yes to life on life’s terms

As one widow put it to me, “Strength doesn’t mean being able to stand up to anything, but being able to crawl on your belly a long, long time before you can stand up again.

She listens closely to the silence as though the sounds just beneath the surface are awaiting to release the significance of a moment.

Does anyone ever cry and you know you've been hurt.You know you should feel an achy feeling in your heart, but you feel nothing. You just cry, and can't stop?

I've taught fifth-year Christmas leavers last thing on a Friday afternoon. Basically, if you can face that you can face anything.

A boardroom is a collection of individuals, and individuals have varying motives, egos, agendas and qualifications. Sometimes the dynamics can go off track.

I really miss my family and my kids when I'm away from home.

Solitude is the furnace of transformation.

Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.

The best remedy for an injury is to forget it.

He felt as if he had been shipwrecked on the Titanic, but in the nick of time had been rescued. By the Lusitania

Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that's gone.