Try to understand long before you move to judgment.

We are all more similar than we usually realize. So much of the suffering we do in our life is because of obsession with self.

We are all more similar than we usually realize.

Becoming a father has definitely heightened my discomfort with uncertainty. I want to be able to say, I know what will happen, when, why. But most of the time, we just don't know.

One of my favorite things is watching my children learn something new. The combination of innocence and excitement makes a parent feel truly alive, even if only for a second and peripherally.

This is a lesson I continue to learn: Be content where you are!

I do not know everything, I never will, and that is OK.

You have to continually and actively watch for the best parts of someone else that will let you experience love.

Love is the feeling we get when we recognize the positive attributes in another.

As an artist, I think it is important for us to mark places in history where we have made progress, to celebrate by expressing that reality.

Be content where you are! The sooner I let go of the notion that something could only be one way, the way I had planned it, without fail, I have always gotten more done and with far less discomfort.

Books are like oxygen to a deep-sea diver, " she had once said. "Take them away and you might as well begin counting the bubbles.

Opposites attract in physics. In life, like attracts like. Kindness attracts kindness. Greed attracts greed. Love attracts love. If you don't like what you're attracting, change who you are.

Poetry is another name for a person’s telling of the self, existence and what is beyond, and one’s own perceptions.

It was different to give something up than to see it taken away. The difference, Kestrel said, was choice.

That was when I realised a sad but incontrovertible truth: I was a geek, and there was no getting around it. I could dress in Kate’s clothes, but it didn’t make me Kate.

The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And its fruit is profound and lasting happiness.

And Im happy that Im not super skinny.

The unexpected always happens.

I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies

Live people ignore the strange and unusual. I myself, am strange and unusual.