The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.

Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.

She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.

We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.

I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.

Once you know who you are, you don't have to worry anymore.

Show me someone not full of herself and I'll show you a hungry person.

...early on Monday evening, when the sky was the color of a velvet ribbon falling over the hills.

All you can try to do is be better than you were yesterday, everyday.

Christie: “Even if he is – aren’t you the one who’s always saying we shouldn’t trust the wealthy, that they became that way by walking on the backs of the poor?

I do see myself settling down, getting married and having kids. But when I think about a family life in the future there's rarely a man involved which is kind of weird.

It's one of the hardest things to translate anything that's not standard.

My kids don't watch any TV, but they watch videos and films. I'm sure they watch it at friends' houses.

We experimented and we experienced many altered states of awareness. We used the power plants. I did that for a year or two.

Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.

There are writers I know and respect who are very good about what's outside, and not too hot about what's inside.

If you want a religion that makes sense, then I suggest something other than Christianity. But if you want a religion that makes life, then, I think this is the one.