I once took a poo in the woods while hunched over like an animal. It was AWESOME.

Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!

Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.

I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

I'm a real stay-at-home mom. I'm really hands-on. Everything else became secondary.

I think happiness is what makes you pretty.

Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.

I've always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it's never too late to transform ourselves.

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Reading is all about losing and finding yourself.

I make art when I can't gather the words to say.

But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH 'things of the world'.

At its most dynamic, faith evolves into powerful applicable knowledge.

What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers.

The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted.

There is nothing cooler than having lines like, 'Batman, the fate of the world is upon us.' Who gets to say that? And who gets to say that in a deep, earnest, amazingly sexy way?

We can both prevent asteroid impacts and address climate change. It's not either-or.

As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith