I thought of the bowl of water my mother taught me to look into. It was true, everything a person ever needed to know was right there in a single bowl small enough to fit in the palm of one hand.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

A positive consequence of becoming multi-dimensional is having deeper trust and faith in oneself and in the Universe.

Every child needs a father. Even if he turns out to be Darth Vader.

Throughout the country, I see the same design problems and solutions over and over.

Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.

World population needs to be decreased by 50%

A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end.

For many years, my formula has been to love yourself, move your body and to watch portion size. But the No. 1 thing is to love and value yourself, no matter what you've been through.

If world is suspicious that Israel may detonate nuclear bomb and if the suspicion is a deterrent - that's good enough.