If anything is worth doing, it is worth doing it badly.

Friends, there are many areas in which I need encouragement, but worrying is not one of them. I worry the way Renée Fleming sings high Cs: Effortlessly. Loudly. At length.

The holy days are the best times to focus on real enthusiasm, the inner source that lightens and sanctifies our lives all year.

In the moments I get it right, every step I take seems to be matched by a universal mystery, which obligingly, incredibly, creates what I can't.

Play until it's time to rest, then rest until it's time to play.

I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light.

My deep belief is that all of us have the same lifelong work: to learn honesty, courage, and love. To learn, in other words, how to be our best selves.