The greatest tragedy is to live out someone else's life thinking it was your own.

Whether we stay or whether we go - to be courageous is to stay close to the way we are made.

I want to know if you are willing to live, day by day, with the consequence of love.

The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.

I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves.

A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you who they are or what they want.

Being young and trying to catch a glimpse of the depths, of the true self, of the soul, or whatever human beings have called it over the centuries, we often find ourselves surrounded by bossy, hectoring voices trying to short-circuit our personal experience by super-imposing their own disappointments. Much of this bossiness masquerades as an education.