A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.

Rainbows introduce us to reflections of different beautiful possibilities so we never forget that pain and grief are not the final options in life.

If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.

Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.

Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.

You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.

Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.

The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.

If you compare yourself with others you may become vain or bitter for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Trust who and what you are, and the universe will support you in miraculous ways.

I got into cooking and I went and cooked in Italy. I became a doula for a while. I built stone walls one summer, and I read a lot, and I swam a lot, and I spent a lot of time thinking.

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.

A vigorous democracy a democracy in which there are freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech would never succumb to communism or any other ism.

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.

In many ways, the idea of resilience is a more useful concept than the idea of sustainability.

If as individuals we can improve the geography only slightly, if at all, perhaps the more appropriately scaled subject for reshaping is ourselves.

I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small.