We are wrapped around a mystery to which we were drawn before we were born.

Destiny is purpose seen from the other end of life.

A society that fails to water the life-seeds of its members may be capable of instructing its citizens, but will be incapable of truly educating its children or wholly embracing its youth.

The problem in most situations is not a lack of calling but a fear of responding to the call.

Set within the seed of the soul is not jut a fleeting image or a vague pattern but a lifelong story enfolded within, waiting to be cracked open and lived all the way out.

Every mistake is a new style.

What good is a path that doesn’t carry us to the edge of our capacity and then beyond that place? A true calling involves a great exposure before it can become a genuine refuge.

When a situation feels like a matter of life and death the deep self is close at hand and it already carries inner medicine and its own life remedy.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.

Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy?

A young Brit girl with no theatre experience decided to take on an iconic American role on Broadway. Maybe I should have thought that through?

...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.

To only a fraction of the human race does God give the privilege of earning one's bread doing what one would have gladly pursued free, for passion.

There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.

Will you ask God to bring you to the place where you're willing to be willing?

If it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority of rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it.

It often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find they don't work, so I have to give it up.