Who was it had said when you fall in love all the popular songs suddenly seemed to mean something.

Found myself kneeling in Your presenceSeeking Your wisdom and embraceLetting go all the fears and found peaceYou put joy in my heart that my soul endlessly rejoices

Hope is the pin-pricked light that tears through the fabric of our dark world.

I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.

I don't have any children; I have four middle-aged people.

Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them?

The oldest [John Kenneth] Galbraith rule is that when you hear that a new era has dawned, you should take cover.

It always impresses me when a person of small stature has command.

Don't go in and out of meditative spaces - stay there with that awareness, always. Everything in life is meditative.

The shy little Mayflower weaves her nest, But the south wind sighs o'er the fragrant loam, And betrays the path to her woodland home.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.