When people are blessed they discover that their lives matter, that there is something in them worthy of blessing.

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.

being afraid to take chances is scarier than actually doing things that challenge you.

I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love

Not the action, but the expectation creates results.

The signature of our eyes, in other words, the way we look never changes even at the age of hundred!

A basket of freshly baked pastries like scones make breakfast easy for your host the next day.

No circumstance, person, or difficulty can stop the plans and the promises of God.

One thing I think is least realistic is that there were five people that made decisions in the fictional 'West Wing.' In real life, there are about five million people that weigh in.

I usually look in my eyes to tell the truth of how I'm feeling that day.

A part of you has grown in me. And so you see, it's you and me together forever and never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart

I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.