A voice can be taken, performed, recorded, remembered, or lost. But it only exists if someone listens.

We don’t see what’s there. We see what we can make sense of.

Connection is not only found in intimacy, but in the wider human bonds we often notice only when they begin to disappear.

Most of life is lived by default. Very little of it is lived deliberately.

Most conversations aren’t conversations at all. They’re negotiations in disguise.

Some experiences are too large to process in the moment. They return later, in fragments.

The past does not stay where we leave it. It is waiting for us.

You don’t stay the same person for long. The trouble begins when you try to.

Redemption begins when we earn our way back through the choices that restore our faith in ourselves.

Not all anxiety is harmful to us. In fact, the right anxiety can be beneficial in our lives.

The question we wrestle with most is not why we are here, but what happens next.

The Olympics continue to move us because they give us intimate portrayals of struggle we can celebrate. Even if they’re strangers.

The people who help us retain our dignity are not always the people we would have chosen.

Sound has a way of reaching the body before the mind has caught up, making what we cannot see impossible to ignore.

We survive by making predictions, but we live better when we remain humble enough to remember how often they fail.

Humour is a vital response to reality, and we laugh because it’s one of the few ways we can face what doesn’t make sense.

Modern media conditions our attention, rewards our impulses, and changes how we respond to reality.

A culture that gives young people less freedom and more comparison teaches them to mistake achievement for worth.

Building something great is hard enough. Staying great when the world inevitably changes is another race entirely.

Power becomes dangerous when people start believing their own judgement is a higher law.