But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got.

Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will.

The place of true healing is a fierce place. It's a giant place. it's a place of monstrous beauty and endless dark and glimmering light.

You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness.

The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you're talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated.

Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.

My mother's last word to me clanks inside me like an iron bell that someone beats at dinnertime: love, love, love, love, love.

Real change happens on the level of the gesture. It's one person doing one thing differently than he or she did before.

To us, they are not so much who they are as who they will become.

Be fearless enough to let love transform you.

There are so many torturous things in this life. Don't let a man who doesn't love you be one of them.

To make people feel special you don't have to pay money but rather pay attention.

Words are only words

My paranoia wasn't always right, but just to be on the safe side, I never went to sleep with a clown in the room.

When I make a picture, I make love.

To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart.

Women, O, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words & hold it up.

If I know what my finale is when I'm writing a screenplay, then I don't always have to chart out every scene before that. I can adequately find my way. I'm experienced enough to do that.

Aggle flabble kabble . . . snurp?

is love at first sight truly possible?

God loves us more than a father, mother, friend, or any else could love, and even more than we are able to love ourselves.