books are like confort food without the calories

The seasons tell us, everything in organic life tells us, that there is no holding on; still, we try to do just that. Sometimes, though, we learn the kind of wisdom that celebrates the open hand.

Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree.

There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if many of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens.

I felt myself trapped in line for a ride I was not nearly ready for, looking back but moving forward in the only direction I could go.

We are assumed to be rather hopeless - swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within days of living this distracting life.

I think one of the reasons we have children is to believe everything all over again. And I'm not talking Santa, here, either.