I would say to women, always question what you're empowering yourself for and what are you claiming power for.

I know that if we allow ourselves into the gridlock of tribalism, we're in trouble.

If you're interested in the door to the heavens opening, start with the door to your own secret self.

What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.

Grief is an expression that you loved well.

When you feel yourself breaking down, may you break open instead.

One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.

Fear is a sneaky thief, stealing away precious moments of your life.

In the true spirit of the holidays, let the darkness of your moods lead you back up to the light, and when New Year's rolls around, your resolution will be tinged with new authenticity and power.

When we slow down, quiet the mind, and allow ourselves to feel hungry for something that we do not understand, we are dipping into the abundant well of spiritual longing.

I think that life is a friggin' magic carpet ride - it's amazing. Everything about life is mysterious and beautiful and touching and tragic and lovely and mystical.

You do not have to run with out a sigh, sometimes you gotta stay and have a break when you breath and admire the beauty of the journey.

Government was rarely more than a choice between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Over all, many of society's values are a cesspool.

The real truth of life is on the streets. Photograph the daily lives of people, and how they exist, and how they fight for space and time and pleasure.

All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.

One who cares is one who listens.

Never give up hope, spring will come.

Poetry has historically been allied with religion and morals; it has served the purpose of penetrating the mysterious depths of things.

Race seems to me to be less and less a subject worth discussing.

In all works of liberality something more is to be considered besides the occasion of the givers; and that is the occasion of the receivers.