The secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company.

Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention

The worst thing that happens in life is not death. The worst thing would be to miss it. . . . I think the great danger in life is not showing up.

We may need to let go of our beliefs and ideas about life in order to have life.

Life is known only by those who have found a way to be comfortable with change and the unknown. Given the nature of life, there may be no security, but only adventure.

I spent the first forty years of my life making major interventions into other people's lives, and I have an idea of the limitations of that method. I see a major event as rather like major surgery. It is a moment, but whether people use it, whether people go with it, needs to be seen.

What we do to survive is often different from what we may need to do in order to live.