A healer is someone who seeks to be the light that she wishes she had in her darkest moments.

The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.

A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.

Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.

Temporary, but excruciating, pain is the price of healing.

There is no transcending our minds, only using them optimally.

The self-judging person will always judge others. The rubric we develop for ourselves, the measuring stick we put against our own mind and body, generalizes to every other human being.

Love is more abundant than we could possibly imagine. Just like there is more air than we could possibly breathe in, there is more love than we could possibly perceive.

The next stage of evolution is the evolution of perception, the evolution of the mind.

This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul.

The mind, just like the body, becomes exactly what it is fed. While the body is nourished by food, the mind is nourished by thoughts.

A city which belongs to just one man is no true city

Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another.

Let's start with the church. As you know, it's my background, it's a natural setting for me and it's definitely my roots.

I think so much about how we read, about the nature of solitude, and of community, is changing in ways that none of us yet understand.

I don't have this feeling like, oh, I want to live in the United States and make movies and become famous just because the money is here. I like to make movies that tell stories that I care about.

I'm more interested in writing than in performing.

If you own the problem, you own the customer. If you lose the problem, you lose the customer. It's that simple.

If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride.

Poverty is not deprivation, it is isolation.

Adulthood has something to do with not choosing any of the pure points of view, but living about half of what you really want to live.