Be brave enough to turn away from shiny objects, and toward the light that makes them shine.

Do whatever work feeds your true self, even if it’s not a safe bet, even if it’s like a crazy risk, even if everyone in your life tells you you’re wrong or bad or crazy.

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

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.

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.

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.