Childbirth being one's most significant life passage, those close to us when we open to birth a baby will never be forgotten.

Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.

Every baby's first breath on Earth could be one of peace and love. Every mother should be healthy and strong. Every birth could be safe and loving. But our world is not there yet

I imagine a world in which all humans are born with an intact capacity to love, and I am willing to devote my life to making it happen.

As a midwife, I am immersed in Oxytocin day and night.

I am just one of many many thousands of midwives, who are devoted to saving lives gently.

Women will always pay the price for love, that is why God makes us so much stronger than men.

I came to the conclusion that bringing Humans to earth with an intact ability to LOVE is essential if we are to survive as a species.

Oxytocin is the hormone of love. We share it when we have a good conversation, we share it when we make love, and when we hug, and BIRTH is the biggest brightest time of rich oxytocin-sharing.

Gentle birth, protecting mother and baby, is a solution that I believe will result in positive change for our society.

I became a fierce advocate for gentle birth as a solution for the most pressing problems of our times - a solution that begins at the source.

There are too many stars in the sky and none of them is overshadowing the other. Don't let anybody be a threat to your growth.

I could use you—if you pass the tests, of course. There are three of them. You have passed the first.""What are the other—" Hrun paused, his lips moved soundlessly and then he hazarded, "two?

As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.

Really, I'm pretty laid-back, always cracking jokes.

To survive, the people in neighborhoods are going to have to secede.

You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.

Never get so fascinated by the extraordinary that you forget the ordinary.

A quiet fool can go undiscovered for a long time.

Before you go to sleep, run over your personal world mentally and thank God for everyone and everything.

Barack Obama is a street corner community organizer who is using the office of the presidency here to virtually undermine it.