When we listen, we offer with our attention an opportunity for wholeness.

Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.

The secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company.

Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar things in new ways.

Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns.

The willingness to consider possibility requires a tolerance of uncertainty.

Our listening creates a sanctuary for the homeless parts within another person.

Big messages come in small packages. All it may take to restore someone's trust in life may be returning a lost earring or a dropped glove.

Life is as complex as we are. Sometimes our vulnerability is our strength, our fear develops our courage, and our woundedness is the road to our integrity. It is not an either/or world.

In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.

Sooner or later we will come to the edge of all that we can control and find life, waiting there for us.

For you to be able to turn on the light in the darkness, you have to live in the light.

There are lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love.

This senate was a place where good Representatives went when they died. Thomas Reed

An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.

I often feel intellectually frustrated when I'm in a position where I'm not moving forward; when I'm not enquiring about something.

Adult stem cells are also problematic, as they are difficult to identify, purify and grow, and simply may not exist for certain diseased tissues that need to be replaced.

I believe the greater the handicap, the greater the triumph.

Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.

I've said that "2012" was my favorite ensemble cast, because it was so evenly good.

The reality shows are getting worse and worse. They’re out of control and have been for some time.