It takes discipline and compassion to awaken the divine in ourselves long enough to recognize the divine in another.

Capture a shadow, dance with the wind, stand in a rainbow, begin at the end.

I appreciate the boldness of gratitude in the quiet, unspoken depths and its ability to buoy another by being articulated.

If self-validation were our most significant societal measure - we would give trophies to ourselves.

Lean forward into your life... catch the best bits and the finest wind. Just tip your feathers in flight a wee bit and see how dramatically that small lean can change your life.

When we have a circle of friends, we have more fun. We get more done, we feel and are stronger, and we really do celebrate the power of our 'us.'

Gift the love of your life with undistracted, untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.

Take time to play! Ask for what you want. Laugh. Live loudly. Be avid. Learn a new thing. Be Yourself!

Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses; Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.

Manage the remarkable balance between acting from your heart and close to your gifts with completing the obligations that your labor and tasks require of you. Leverage opportunity AND seize joy.

I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. Mary

Being realistic encompasses the negative, but it by no means excludes the positive.

Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.

...there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

Even when I go to a salad bar, I need to feel like I'm one of the first people there.

A strange alternative * * *Must women have a doctor or a dance?

All beings exist ultimately in a condition of inner enlightenment. Enlightenment is in all things.

I will decide who is a Jew!

I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing.

Multitasking is a part of my everyday life.

For me, the goal wasn't to turn the stand-up special on its head, but to do what I do specifically, and hopefully that reads as something new.