Superficial social niceties are far different from the deep emotion of thanksgiving.

If we don’t honor our truth, how can we expect anyone else to do so?

Find the pitch and pace and syllables and words you love to hear. Delight your own senses, and self-romance.

Tread lightly on your partner’s heart. It was given to you for safekeeping.

When loneliness is a constant state of being, it harkens back to a childhood wherein neglect and abandonment were the landscape of life.

How can you get through to yourself?

Stand up for the underdog, the 'loser.' Sometimes having the strength to show loving support for unacknowledged others turns the tides of our own lives.

When we are able to look beyond appearances and to behold that which we truly are, we recognize that our essence is interwoven with the divine and that we exist as one of its expressions.

There are marvelous sea creatures whose existences can be viewed only within the deep blue sea, and similarly we all have dear secrets that can be spoken only in the habitat of the heart.

Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.

Help the Cubans to the utmost counseling his successor while handing over the reins. We cannot let Castro's government go on.

Hate, hunger, and pride make better levers of propaganda than do love or impartiality.

If anything diminishes a person, it is the cancer of constant complaining.

Preaching is theology coming through a man who is on fire.

You only tasted the water. I tasted the gift. The water was simply the container for an act of loving-kindness and nothing could be sweeter.

I don't like the dark. I really am afraid of the dark.

Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree - very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.

Can it be chat modesty may more betray Our sense than woman's lightness?

Maybe it's because it's connected to my childhood, or it's connected to the origins of what drove me creatively, but I feel like my life never makes more sense than when I'm in that process.