I want you to be supervised, all day every day, by people who forgive your errors and believe in your destiny.

Tiny steps will get you to your goal months and months sooner. A little is better than a lot.

The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.

The important thing is to tell yourself a life story in which you, the hero, are primarily a problem solver rather than a helpless victim. This is well within your power, whatever fate might have dealt you.

Silence comes in two varieties: One that nourishes and comforts; another that chokes, smothers, and isolates. Solitary confinement is the worst kind of imprisonment we can inflict on fellow humans, and if you are forced to keep silent about some dark secret, you live in solitary confinement. Without the bridge of communication connecting you to other human beings, you can’t share your burdens, can’t receive comfort, can’t confirm that you still belong. Silence is the abyss that separates you from hope.

We can’t save ourselves from fear by seeking safety, because safety always means there’s something to be safe from-in other words, something to fear. The way out of fear isn’t safety. It’s freedom.

The only map of your right life is written on your soul at its most peaceful, and the only sure compass is your heart at its most open.