“Everything matters. Everything you do touches someone in some way, even though you might not understand that.”

“Music is like you touch the pulse of the world. Music is always happening, and sometimes you get to touch it for a while, and when you do you know that everything's connetcted to everything else.”

“You want to have a meaningful life? Everything you do matters. That's the definition of a meaningful life. But everything you do matters. So you're going to have to carry that with you.”

“If you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything.”

“Some people belong entirely to others … They have not a day, not an hour to call their own, so completely do they give themselves to others. This is true even in matters of understanding. Some people know everything for others and nothing for themselves.”

“You have a responsibility to your future self, who is someone you might not even know, might not even understand yet. Because until you die, that future self has as much of a life as you do. […] Your life is not disposable.”

“People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more.”

“If you could pack for heaven, this was how you'd do it, touching everything, taking nothing.”

“You are a miracle, and everything you touch could be a miracle.”

“Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.”