Don't read anything except what destroys the insulation between yourself and your experience.

What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.

Things which do not grow and change are dead things.

When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.

We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.

Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.

You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.

Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.

A benevolent universe of spirit helpers sits at the ready to support your unfolding joy. All you have to do is ask.

Writing is beautiful, like putting on a gold suit and going to sleep in it.

You could be writing the book that changes your life.

Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise

What she couldn't put into word was what had happened in between to change her from one person into the other

If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.

I mean, it's unheard of for somebody to hit 70 home runs, so I'm like in awe of myself right now.

This body is a tent which for a space Does the pure soul with kingly presence grace; When he departs, comes the tent-pitcher, Death, Strikes it, and moves to a new halting-place.

Popularity has killed more prophets than persecution.

To speak the gospel skillfully without attempting to perform the gospel is a false proclamation of the gospel.