We dropped our troubles into the lap of the storyteller, and they turned into someone else's.

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.

Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

There is a place to stand where you can see so many lights you forget you are one of them.

... the real heroes of race and culture would always be the people who stepped out of their own line to make a larger circle.

You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.

This is the world I want to live in. The shared world.

Being good felt like a heavy coat, so I took it off.

Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.

Energy is everything. Rubbing happy and sad together creates energy.

and it is hard to let go, to imagine alternatives, but you are bold with unknowing, you are ready to explore.

Fools "Sell Out" Where Angels Fear to Tread

Every great tragedy forms a fertile soil in which a great recovery can take root and blossom, but only if you plant the seeds.

For me, Christmas is about family, loving, forgiveness, compassion, understanding and comradery.

When the voice and the vision on the inside is more profound, and more clear and loud than all opinions on the outside, you've begun to master your life.

The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.

I try to live with the idea that karma is a very real thing. So I put out what I want to get back.

What they were doing was extremely wrong as far as I was concerned, and to this day, I don't know what I was thinking except bowl them over.

Be willing to give people a second chance. You'd be surprised how well people respond to another opportunity to succeed.

Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use; or, if sterling, may require good management to make it serve the purposes of sense or happiness.