Despair is our chance to wrestle with fire and come through.

Wonder is not a Pollyanna stance, not a denial of reality; wonder is an acknowledgement of the power of the mind to transform, to notice, to decide what experience shall mean.

When you’re stuck in a spiral, to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing.

Writing bridges the inner and outer worlds and connects the paths of action and reflection.

Words are how we think; stories are how we link.

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves.

To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against.

The purpose of life is not to maintain personal comfort; it's to grow the soul.

Spiritual life is contractual. The sacred cannot dialogue with the unresponsive.

Creatures of a very particular making, we need to know the cultural blinders that narrow our world view as well as the psychological blinders that narrow our view of our personal experience.

Desire should be allowed to roam freely. The range is endless .

She gave him a strange maternal grin.For the first time, clearly, the thought surfaced in Paul Sheldon’s mind: I am introuble here. This woman is not right.

Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.

If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu.

It was the kind of sword that would make a lifelong pacifist look for tall boots and a hat with feathers.

Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.

I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is.

You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!

For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.