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

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.

Shyness means you are in the hallway of a greater presence. You just don't know how to take the conversation another step. It's a lovely indication.

To seek out beauty in our work is to make a pilgrimage of our labors, to understand that the consummation of work lies not only in what we have done, but who we have become while accomplishing the task.

Genius is becoming something you were all along.

Vulnerability is not a weakness but a faculty for understanding.