Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of light...And let it breathe.

Your love Should never be offered to the mouth of a Stranger, Only to someone Who has the valor and daring To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife Then weave them into a blanket To protect you.

Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.

I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'

I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

I am in love with every church And mosque And temple And any kind of shrine Because I know it is there That people say the different names Of the One God.

Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.

This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.

You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.

Run my dear, from anything that may not strengthen your precious budding wings. Run like hell my dear, from anyone likely to put a sharp knife into the sacred, tender vision of your beautiful heart.

Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?

If she could find a man who could feel and laugh as well as desire, she might even think about thinking about marriage.

The spirit is the mirror

I'm too awkward to date, I think. I'm kind of all or nothing, you know? Either put a baby inside of me or leave me alone.

Usually New York has lousy salads.

Faith in the Lord Jesus is the only sure medicine for troubled hearts.

Now may this little Book a blessing be To those that love this little Book, and me: And may its Buyer have no cause to say, His money is but lost, or thrown away.

We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.

The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.

I'm a fashion designer and people think, what do I know?