At the very point of vulnerability is where the surrender takes place-that is where the god enters. The god comes through the wound.

Once we get used to listening to our dreams, our whole body responds like a musical instrument.

But if you travel far enough, one day you will recognize yourself coming down to meet yourself. And you will say - yes.

An addiction is anything we do to avoid hearing the messages that body and soul are trying to send us.

This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never known.

It takes great courage to break with one's past history and stand alone.

The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or sweetness.

Rage and bitterness do not foster femininity. They harden the heart and make the body sick.

To strive for perfection is to kill love because perfection does not recognize humanity.

The mystery of God touches us - or does not - in the smallest details: giving a strawberry, with love; receiving a touch, with love; sharing the snapdragon red of an autumn sunset, with love.

If we could allow the pace of our meetings to slow down to the pace of our hearts, we might find genuine understanding.

I guess I don't believe that death is the end.

I will go to the UN General Assembly and, in a clear voice, tell the nations of the world the truth about Iran's terrorist regime, which constitutes the greatest threat to world peace.

I firmly believe that you can't get a good movie without risking a bad movie.

It's all bullshit on Everest these days.

I'm no longer a prisoner of my fears. Which really just means I'm using real butter.

I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women.

When I first started playing guitar, everyone was playing Chuck Berry and B.B. King licks. I decided I was going to find other avenues of expression.

Only those who do not fight are never wounded.

I'm a grown woman. I've earned my experiences, my scars.

The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.