“I would tell her to not be afraid of her voice.”

“Those moments that put you in a state of awe. For me, it's the feeling of being a small speck in the wider grand scheme of things.”

“How do I keep the fun and lightness of curiosity while building a stable life that's less exhausting?”

“How fun is it to just love yourself? It’s so freeing.”

“She looked back at me, smiled, and said, ‘I love you, Christopher.’ And that stuck. I remember stopping and time stopped.”

“I think in its highest form, it [love] really is the practice - the choice, to act from a place of reverence and respect and honesty and care.”

“With a strong foundation of family and friends, anything becomes possible.”

“Why not you? Who are you? Nobody promised you a rose garden.”

“When you're ready to take that on, you're not really worried about failing and you just do your best.”

“The world keeps spinning and my world is my family. I have to help keep it spinning. No days off.”

“… anything you do on this Earth - that's going to be your spiritual judgment.”

“… [she said] ‘You're addicted to happiness.’ And it's true. I have to be happy. So I pursue it all the time.”