“A beautiful thing happens when we start paying attention to each other. It is by participating more in your relationship that you breathe life into it.”

“There is a kind of fallout that happens when you leave college. The classroom is a wonderful, if artificial, place: Your professor gets paid to pay attention to your ideas, and your classmates are paying to pay attention to your ideas. Never again in your life will you have such a captive audience.”

“Good literature is one key to peace. When we stop reading each other, when we stop paying attention to each other's words and stories, we too easily oppose one another.”

“The bad things in life open your eyes to the good things you weren’t paying attention to before.”

“...poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths...”

“When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship”