Listening well is an exercise of attention and by necessity hard work. It is because they do not realize this or because they are not willing to do the work that most people do not listen well.

Self examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.

Love is too large, too deep ever to be truly understood or measured or limited within the framework of words.

Going into the unknown is invariably frightening, but we learn what is significantly new only through adventures.

The time and the quality of the time that their parents devote to them indicate to children the degree to which they are valued by their parents. . . . When children know that they are valued, when they truly feel valued in the deepest parts of themselves, then they feel valuable. This knowledge is worth more than any gold.

The only real security in life lies in relishing life's insecurity.