We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds. (36)

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.

Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

Feel the feelings and drop the story.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.

I have often believed the pen to be a needle, and ink to be a thread. Each story is an intricately woven tapestry and with each word I invariably sew a piece of myself into the page.

If you control the children, you control the future.

My husband says my toes are like Wall's cocktail sausages. He feels peckish whenever he sees them.

We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.

My parents never really lecture me.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are living.

It is unthinkable that a national government which represents women should ignore the issue of the right of all women to political freedom.

Making the extra effort to say thanks in a genuine, personal manner goes a long way. It is pleasurable to do, and it encourages more of the same good behavior.

This is entertainment, not Judaism, I think the general public will celebrate this, but the religious public will be indifferent. (on Madonna's visit to Israel)