To love unconditionally requires no contracts, bargains or agreements.

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.

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

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.

Go that way, past the viaduct, and the wops will jump you, or chase you into Jew town...Polacks would stomp on you...Micks will shower you with Irish confetti from the brickyards.

The people who misuse the Sabbath lose the blessings of spiritual food and growth promised to those who keep this commandment.

Satan sent her from the bowels of hell, I should have recognized old Jezebel.

You can't fight hearts and minds with money.

This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There is no top or bottom, you see.

Never, ladies, marry a fool. Any husband rather than a fool. With some other husband you may be unhappy, but with a fool you will be miserable.

We all have human emotions that rob our lives.

The mighty have such simple weaknesses. I like to think it’s God’s way of keeping things fair.

I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.

I could have been a Vincent Young y'all know nothing about. I was on the wrong road, and it was a hard, hard time.