I've got Flossie dog, and she is great. She and I are still in love, 14 years. That's a relationship that works.

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.

If you open the flood gates of thought you do not know what may come. You may discover that you are better than you thought or worse than the devil himself

Motherhood changes everything.

We are not allowed to have hearts, under penalty of being hooted down.

I like geography. I could tell you the capital of any country you want.

I've seen the consequences of what can happen when you're unprepared for a fight, or not as prepared as your opponent.

I've been meaning to write about the Rolling Stones, but I am the furthest thing from a hipster rock journalist.

Put the mind in alignment with the ten thousand radiances of enlightenment and experience them in various gradations forever. That's the total purpose of a monk.

I'm past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation.

Would you care to walk to the river?” -Miles “I would love to walk anywhere with you." -Amber

You will make a lousy anybody else, but you will be the best "you" in existence.