My greatest life lesson has been to not wait for the opportunities to come to me. I realize how important it is to be proactive and to create the opportunities myself.

If you're going to live in the anxiety of the surface of this world, you're never going to find the depth, the source. If you want calmness, you've got to go deeper.

Treat yourself as if you were someone inexpressibly dear to you.

It gives me such hope that each one of us can contribute to make this world a better place.

I think I have an awareness inside of me that we are all the same, that basically we are all part of that one heart.

The world can only seem a safe place when we feel safe inside.

No matter who you are, you have a giant self.

We forget that our bodies are the most valuable, precious thing we have and take that miracle of life for granted.

We all have something that centers us in our lives. That linchpin is something that when we don't do enough of it, we start to feel off center.

Into your darkest corner, you are safe in my love, you are protected. I am the openess you seek, I am your doorway. Come sit in the circular temple of my heart, & let yourself be calm.

I'm not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.

If you guide others out of the dark, you are a star, even if no one knows your name.

You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed at.

God is all about passion for the possible.

The receptionist looked us over, then went back to typing something incredibly urgent—like her résumé́ for another job.

It's hard bein' real in a world that's a fallacy.

In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point.

The simple solution for disappointment depression Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going.

A little too abstract, a little too wise, It is time for us to kiss the earth again, It is time to let the leaves rain from the skies, Let the rich life run to the roots again.

I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.

The 'person' is not an interchangeable part. The 'citizen' is. ... The person is harking back to a pre-print model. It's what the hippies were.