A loving silence often has more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.

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

Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar things in new ways.

Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns.

The willingness to consider possibility requires a tolerance of uncertainty.

Our listening creates a sanctuary for the homeless parts within another person.

Big messages come in small packages. All it may take to restore someone's trust in life may be returning a lost earring or a dropped glove.

Life is as complex as we are. Sometimes our vulnerability is our strength, our fear develops our courage, and our woundedness is the road to our integrity. It is not an either/or world.

In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.

Sooner or later we will come to the edge of all that we can control and find life, waiting there for us.

Sorry doesn’t make anything better. It’s just a word to fill the space of a loss of words.

To go to L.A. and be on the Addams Family set? It was beautiful production design and an illustrious set. I'm focused on never losing that sense of privilege. I'm still like, "I'm super lucky."

When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.

One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.

I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.

Walking around an early spring garden- going nowhere.

It really don't matter what you're thinking about, as long as you're thinking about something.

Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.

People ask me about fighting in real life and, honestly, it wouldn't look as graceful as it does in film and TV.