Don't forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.

We are the only species of mammal that doubts our ability to give birth. It's profitable to scare women about birth. But let's stop it. I tell women: Your body is not a lemon.

Whenever and however you give birth, your experience will impact your emotions, your mind, your body, and your spirit for the rest of your life.

If a woman doesn't look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn't treating her right.

There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we

Why in the world do the insurance companies get to be the boss of birth? That's what I want to know.

Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body.

It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby... it inspires him.

The human species is no more unsuited to give birth than any other of the 5,000 or so species of mammals on the planet. We are merely the most confused.

The way a culture treats women in birth is a good indicator of how well women and their contributions to society are valued and honored.

The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.

The river this November afternoonRests in an equipoise of sun and cloud:A glooming light, a gleaming darkness shroudIts passage. All seems tranquil, all in tune.

You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments then the wind blows your footprints away.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us survive at a time when an increasingly balkanized world so badly needs it.

Unlike a mere deception or a simple secret, which gives the impression that something's been taken away, a great magician makes you feel like something's been given to you.

She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric.

There's endless possibilities to taking music into the future by using music that actually was 100 years old.

I'm the guy in the crowd making fun of the hero's shirt.

Affirmative precepts are distinguished from negative whenever one is not comprised in the other; thus, that of honoring parents does not comprise that of not killing, and vice versa.

Sometimes you go against what they say because you believe in it anyway.