When something isn't coming my way, I believe it was not meant for me.

If you're going to live in the anxiety of the surface of this world, you're never going to find the depth, the source. If you want calmness, you've got to go deeper.

Treat yourself as if you were someone inexpressibly dear to you.

It gives me such hope that each one of us can contribute to make this world a better place.

My greatest life lesson has been to not wait for the opportunities to come to me. I realize how important it is to be proactive and to create the opportunities myself.

I think I have an awareness inside of me that we are all the same, that basically we are all part of that one heart.

The world can only seem a safe place when we feel safe inside.

No matter who you are, you have a giant self.

We forget that our bodies are the most valuable, precious thing we have and take that miracle of life for granted.

We all have something that centers us in our lives. That linchpin is something that when we don't do enough of it, we start to feel off center.

Into your darkest corner, you are safe in my love, you are protected. I am the openess you seek, I am your doorway. Come sit in the circular temple of my heart, & let yourself be calm.

Never put a single thought of weakness in the flourishing minds of the children. Fill them up with vigour and compassion, for their character will define the future of the entire human species.

Instead, we linger over a luxury that costs nothing: Imagining what may be.

I don't like to overdose. Call me old-fashioned.

Pain and misery are two different words, which both hurt.

I think dressing nowadays went from trying to fit in to wearing something to try to stick out.

A poem is no place for an idea.

We do not fear the loss of God's favor, for either we have it not. We cannot lose it. What we fear is the loss of our idols.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but chains and whips excite me.

The journalist's job is to get the story by breaking into their offices, by bribing, by seducing people, by lying, by anything else to break through the palace guard.

So, are you... intrigued ... by Stanhope?" "Intrigued by him?" "Indeed. Do you find him ..." he paused. "Intriguing?" she teased. He sent her an exasperated look.