It didn't matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.

We are stronger than we think we are. We have courage that we do not recognize until we need it. We are equal to challenges that we haven't even imagined yet

The world over, give a guy money and it goes to drinking, gambling, and women. When you give a woman money, it goes to feeding, clothing, helping people.

There are so many people in the communities in need and so many organizations in need. People are doing amazing, beautiful things just to keep the world from not hurting more today than yesterday.

In some ways, it's easier to settle for someone else's version of success than to risk falling short at one's own.

What we have is a crisis of imagination. Albert Einstein said that you cannot solve a problem with the same mind-set that created it.

I do think men fear female intuition.

I think influence is one way to exercise power and that the challenge is whether it is power over or power with. That's the essential shift that I hope can happen in the world.

Patriarchy is connected to greed, a symptom of a larger force that can only be dispelled through kindness and love. It's basic Buddhism.

It's too bad that it takes egregious behavior or some kind of crisis to get people to take notice and get clearer about things that were just below the surface.

If you can intuit well, you're essentially meeting the future faster.

There is nothing prettier in thewhole wide world than a girlin lovewith every breath she takes.

It cost nothing to be loving.

Time is a river, and it flows in a circle. I love you.

Laughter erupted from her belly and shot out her mouth like pigeons through an open cage door, schoolchildren bursting into summer vacation, water from a tapped hydrant.

People don't do me much good.

If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form reasoning.

Believe me, there is no more powerful means to obtain God's grace than to employ the intercessions of the Holy Virgin.

You become what you believe.

Youngsters are the most discerning audience. They want entertainment, they want issues.

I first found out I had cancer on my eye and lost an eye to this disease when I was 16, and I've since had cancer in my kidneys and pancreas and a host of other areas.