Just when you think you know something, it gets turned around and challenged in some way. But those changes are welcome because you end up learning more.

For me, running is about freedom. I find that the freer I feel, the faster I am.

Inside every woman there is a Kali. [Hindu goddess who morphed into seven hidden beings to win a battle] Do not mistake the exterior for the interior.

Love is large; love defies limits. People talk about the sanctity of love -- love is by definition sacred. Not some love between some people, but all love between all people.

Love is the greatest light, the brightest torch, and will always be the greatest instrument of change.

Giving feels good. It is a form of healing. Not just for you as an individual, but for everyone.

Of course, the surest way to free yourself from an existential crisis is through comedy.

You can have the 'golden rule' - do unto others as you would have others do unto you. But then you take it one step farther - where you just do good unto others, period. Just for the sake of it.

My husband does so many romantic things for me, it's absurd.

At any given moment in your life, you have the choice between love and fear. And that's a choice you make. You make the choice of how you react to events.

Love is the most dangerous thing in the world.

The people of the light, loves the light of knowledge.

Deb and I were married on a snowy night - wind cross-wove a veil of snow for her then threw confetti at us as we left the lighted church...

Decide what you want. Declare it to the world. See yourself winning. And remember that if you are persistent as well as patient, you can get whatever you seek.

This is a very violent place to live, the Earth, and we're a very violent species. Cain is still killing Abel. We see that every day.

The heart feels, the head compares.

One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

Even the darkest moments of the liturgy are filled with joy, and Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the lenten fast, is a day of happiness, a Christian feast.

I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.

When giving directions to Joe Garagiola to his New Jersey home, which is accessible by two routes: "When you come to a fork in the road, take it."