Inside everyone is a great shout of joy waiting to be born.

It's my contention that there is no sincere path a human being can take without breaking his or her heart...so it can be a lovely, merciful thing to think, 'Actually, there is no path I can take without having my heart broken, so why not get on with it and stop wanting these extra-special circumstances which stop me from doing something courageous?'

Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work, a future.

What you plan is too small for you to live.

To give generously but appropriately and then, most difficult of all, and as the full apotheosis of the art, with feeling, in the moment and spontaneously, has always been recognized as one of the greatest of human qualities.

The severest test of work today, is not of our strategies, but of our imaginations and identities.

Vulnerability is not a weakness but a faculty for understanding.