If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.

We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues.

When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.

Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business.

I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they help me to be fully alive on this journey, and show me that I must be willing to go where it takes me, even through the valley of the shadow.

And joy is always a promise.

If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.