The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.

Attention is a moral act: It creates, brings aspects of things into being.

Art is about finding creativity in the gutter next to you.

My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.

The quality of your life depends quite a bit on the quality of attention you project out onto the world.

Open to whatever you experience without fighting. Let it be present just as it is. Let go of the battle.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention… To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

You make your life meaningful by applying meaning to it.

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.