I cannot tell you how happy and in love I am with everything

When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!

You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening

Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper

When you face your fears, you are free of them. There's nothing in the world I need to hide from again

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

I started dating older men, and I would fall in love with them. I thought they could teach me about life.

I stopped dating for six months a year ago. Dating requires a lot of energy and focus.

I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination

People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power

Worldly life means [state of continuous] agitation and uneasiness. What makes one like it, it is a wonder in itself!

... but I believe that music can change a life, because it changed mine.

Only air and light and the love of friends! Let no man lose heart who still has these.

No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against you in judgment, you shall condemn.

Don't be afraid to give your dream a try. Even if you fail, give it another try and several more until you excel. Success always comes from the willingness to never stop trying.

Maud: Young women are never happy.Betty: Mother, what a thing to say.Maud: Then when they're older they look back and see that comparatively speaking they were ecstatic.

Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings.

Prayer is the most powerful form of energy one can generate....It supplies us with a flow of sustaining power in our daily lives.

The best self promotion is your next book. And the book after that and after that.

A few people have said I should let you win