Rage and bitterness do not foster femininity. They harden the heart and make the body sick.

Once we get used to listening to our dreams, our whole body responds like a musical instrument.

At the very point of vulnerability is where the surrender takes place-that is where the god enters. The god comes through the wound.

But if you travel far enough, one day you will recognize yourself coming down to meet yourself. And you will say - yes.

An addiction is anything we do to avoid hearing the messages that body and soul are trying to send us.

This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never known.

It takes great courage to break with one's past history and stand alone.

The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or sweetness.

To strive for perfection is to kill love because perfection does not recognize humanity.

The mystery of God touches us - or does not - in the smallest details: giving a strawberry, with love; receiving a touch, with love; sharing the snapdragon red of an autumn sunset, with love.

If we could allow the pace of our meetings to slow down to the pace of our hearts, we might find genuine understanding.

Repeat a lie a hundred times and it becomes an ideal.

In a half-empty-glass sort of world, I’m the little girl whose cup runneth over.

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.

I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.

There is a sense that animated movies are suddenly a genre. I just don't believe they are; it's a technique to tell a story.

It gives me more breadth as an actor and as an artist to not be pigeonholed.

I've gotten to portray things in [Christopher Guest's] movies that I wouldn't have in others.

If you don't get spending under control, eventually you're going to have a big tax increase.

by making himself a priest made himself a demon.