Allow beauty and sadness to touch you. This is love, not fear.

Let's hold hands and brave this beautiful, crazy life together with a sweet smile and a calm breath.

Vulnerability is a wonderful tool for awakening and for learning and for growing and for connecting.

The system is broken. The doctors and the nurses can't do everything. The patients need human attention; the patients themselves need to be addressed, rather than just their disease.

I feel vulnerable every single time I step into a classroom. I feel completely exposed.

Teaching yoga is the only thing I can do. I can't imagine not doing it. I love it because I believe in it.

I do what I do because there's nothing else I can do.

Seeing what was needed in the hospital firsthand - someone needs to come in and just be with patients, without trying to take their blood or change the bedpan, and to give them human-to-human touch.

I love lyrics. They help me to figure things out.

I can honestly say, I have the love of my life, and we have the most amazing children.

Every luxury must be paid for and everything is a luxury starting with being in the world.

My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.

People would say, 'Girls don't play hockey. Girls don't skate.' I would say, 'Watch this.'

We should like those whom we love to receive all their happiness, or, if this were impossible, all their unhappiness from our hands.

Anything in life has a ying and a yang. It has a good and a bad. And in the case of freedom, well, freedom also gives you the freedom to be stupid.

Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.

Accepting blame when it's not really due sometimes makes the point better.

Sending a book out into the world is a lot like sending your child to the first day of kindergarten. You hope the other kids play nice and that she makes friends.

I am yours. Don't give myself back to me.

You have to make rough decisions with sequencing and work within the limitations of having good audio for 15 minutes on a vinyl side.