If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy.

I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life.

I think you can love someone and be infatuated with them, too. But infatuation is immediate, while the sort of love in the West is something you build with someone. It's a trust.

I think living with the absence of someone we love is like living in front of a mountain from which a person - a speck in the distance, on some distance ridge - is perpetually waving.

It’s the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: the history of how you felt.

Coincidences mean you're on the right path.

It's tempting to imagine how we could hurt someone close, because it reminds us how fiercely we love them.