Transition begins in forgiveness.

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.

The more you learn, the more you know, you don’t know enough.

I lost someone very close to me and afterward I believed I could have saved him had I been a better friend to him. But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.

I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.

I have loved works of fiction precisely for their illusions, for the author's sleight-of-hand in showing me the magic, what appeared in the right hand but not in the left.

Yandex originated from a company called Arkadia, which created two search programs under the DOS operating system in 1990.

We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice.

It's one thing to make lemonade out of lemons, another to proclaim that lemons are what you'd hope for in the first place.

There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.

Our dad played us a lot of old country songs by The Carter Family and he would sing along to it. I loved listening to him sing.

The primary goal in the education of children is to teach, and to give the example of, a virtuous life.