I was willing to pay any price including subservience to secure this love, hoping that with each piece of myself I gave up he would be so pleased that he, too, would be transformed.

I meditate, I do yoga and I have a lot of friends who are healers.....And if none of that works, I go by a chocolate bar and a bottle of cognac.

You can't push a wave onto the shore any faster than the ocean brings it in.

I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.

Professionally I felt like a horse running in the wrong race.

May all humankind find grace.

Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.

Believing right doctrine will no more save you, than doing good works will save you.

I love to read theories without ever using them when working... The paradoxical fact in the aesthetic is that theories are also true in reverse.

Here, therefore, huge and mighty warrior though you be, here shall you die.

History teaches, perhaps, very few clear lessons. But surely one such lesson learned by the world at great cost is that aggression, unopposed, becomes a contagious disease.

Your clothing is the most important survival tool you have. Dress properly and any emergency you may have to endure becomes more manageable.

I don't take vacations.

Surrender means cultivating a comfortable attitude toward not knowing, being nurtured by the mystery of moments that are dependably surprising, ever fresh.

I still trust my penalty sytem and will be there when I'll be needed.