The tears had turned to ink.

Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness-both the ones you have received and the ones you have given - you can no longer believe that what you do does not matter.

Gratitude is like a flashlight. If you go out in your yard at night and turn on a flashlight, you suddenly can see what's there. It was always there, but you couldn't see it in the dark.

I wonder why it is that we so often imprison ourselves in the opinions of other people. There can be no punishment worse than conspiring in our own diminishment.

Kindness is twice blessed. It blesses the one who gives it with a sense of his or her own capacity to love, and the person who receives it with a sense of the beneficence of the universe.

Living on purpose requires us to find what we love fiercely, give it all we've got and then pass it on, as if it were a torch, to those who follow

To explore what it would mean to live fully, sensually alive and passionately on purpose, I have to drop my preconceived ideas of who and what I am.

I need to take a sacred pause, as if I were a sun warmed rock in the center of a rushing river.

Reignite the fire in your heart. Live on purpose.

I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise.

I will not die an unlived life...I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me...I choose to risk my significance.

You can win the victories you seek, Jorg. But only if you find better reasons to want them.

My mother cooked her last Christmas standing rib roast in 1987 and died a few weeks afterward.

I'm passionate about the issues that I care about and I'm a really good listener.

The lobbies are always the best-looking place in the hotel-you wish you could bring out a cot and sleep in them. Compared to the lobby, your room always looks like a closet.

If I have more creativity that I want to get out of me, I try to find other ways than pursuing solo records so much.

Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.

Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty?

A country is as strong, really, as its citizens. And I think that mental and physical health - mental and physical vigor - go hand in hand.

He came over and ruffled my hair, which is technically assault. I could get on the blower to ChildLine.

In these flashes of insight, I understand for a moment that one of the great dividends of darkness is an increased sensitivity to the light.