When you judge yourself for needing help, you judge those you are helping. When you attach value to giving help, you attach value to needing help.

To be forgiven is to be loved

Given the dark fears we feel when we experience loss, nothing is more generous and loving than the willingness to embrace grief in order to forgive. To be forgiven is to be loved.

When you look away from a homeless person, you diminish their humanity and your own.

Denying emotion is not avoiding the high curbs, it's never taking your car out of the garage. It's safe in there, but you'll never go anywhere.

Requiring accountability while also extending your compassion is not the easiest course of action, but it is the most humane, and, ultimately, the safest for the community.

People on corporate conveyor belts, like animals in slaughter-chutes are all part of the same big massacre of joy.

Anybody who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.

Some people will always talk no matter what you do or say

You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, "I'm a writer," it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away.

I think the American people, you know, they're going to want that new car smell. They want to drive something off the lot that doesn't have as much mileage as me.

This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. We have not been free to use our own power to name ourselves, the world, or God.

The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind.

Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.

One should be wary of talking on end about such subjects as learning, morality or folklore in front of elders or people of rank. It is disagreeable to listen to.