A religion cannot be sustained by the number of its lip-followers denying in their lives its tenets.

Where there is love there is life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

The future depends on what you do today.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.

Books make the soul float.

The discoveries of my life that were of greatest significance (1) When I discovered love, (2) When I discovered faith and (3) When I discovered one cannot be without the other.

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

Last year when my grandma fell and broke her hip she couldn't paint her toenails anymore. So my grandpa started doing it for her, even after he fell and broke his hip, too. For me, that's love.

I've never had prejudice against me because of being a woman in comedy, I've never felt any sort of unfairness because of that - but I do think it is naive to think that it doesn't exist.

You can spend your whole life trying to be popular, but at the end of the day, the size of the crowd at your funeral will be largely dictated by the weather.

Think of your life as a field. The field is the field of action. What a mystic does is set up their life as a field of power.

The scene was set. All that was required was an action, a cold start, instant and brutal as beginnings always are.