For underground metaphors, you can scrape an inch below the turf. For what it's worth, my style's been developed in the core of the Earth. The exhale's volcanic, the inhale is seismic.

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

Bursts of gold on lavender melting into saffron. It's the time of day when the sky looks like it has been spray-painted by a graffiti artist.

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.

Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.

...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.

If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. (48)

Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.

If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am.

My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.

lose weight, eat backwards.

I'm not looking for sympathy at all.

Anyway, what is the soul but a dream of itself?

Please don't suggest that I think we normalize relations with Tehran tomorrow. We don't. But I would like to see us move forward, and hopefully some day that will happen.

Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.

Sadat provides an important, insistent voice for continued advancement in peace and social justice.

If any of you would bring judgment the unfaithful wife, let him also weight the heart of her husband in scales, and measure his soul with measurements.

... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.

Working women went through a time when they believed that.