To know another person is to Know How to live and work with her. To know another person in a moral sense is to Know How to respect her… Respect must show in action.

There’s nothing worthless about being wordless, it will only save your mouth from talking gibberish.

There are three keys for your journey. Humility, wisdom, love. Don’t leave without them – they will enrich you all the way. And they will bless those around you.

It is as if I have entered what the Tibetans call the Bardo-literally, between-two-existences- a dreamlike hallucination that precedes reincarnation, not necessarily in human form…In case I should need them, instructions for passage through the...

… so this is for us.This is for us who sing, write, dance, act, study, run and loveand this is for doing it even if no one will ever knowbecause the beauty is in the...

Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it. Wear your art like your heart on your sleeve and keep it alive...

I can’t change the world, I can only change how I choose to live in it.

There is a larger lesson here, because the book encompasses not just the lives of prisoners in a Soviet prison camp, but every one of us. Shukhov squeezes everything he can out of a mouthful...

Fiction may amuse us, but reality instills lessons to be imbibed through experience; to ‘live’ this stark reality called ‘life’ as a blessing, whereas some foolishly waste it by following fiction and fictitious characters.

[F]or what in this world is worth doing that doesn’t require a portion of one’s body and soul?

Turning something over to the Holy Spirit is a leap of faith that lets go of attempting to control outcomes. The core of alcoholism, anorexia, bulimia, smoking and a host of things the world calls...

…looking up at the stars, he had accepted life as a medium for action. Something to wield like a tool. One’s own life: an instrument for the shaping of the world.