Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.

The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.

We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Religion is one of the safest places to hide from God.

The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas or doctrines.

God is always bigger than the boxes we build for God, so we should not waste too much time protecting the boxes.

Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world.

There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.

You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak; not by being right, but through your mistakes.

To seek after peace is to be ever ware of any who would threaten it.

I love it when people yell at me about the environment and then I tell 'em I'm burning 90% cleaner than them.

There are some great, subversive female writers out there. Gender should not affect anything. It does, but it shouldn't.

We work day after day, not to finish things; but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.

Well, with all the experiences I have had, I would say the most disappointing ones are the ones when I have not taken enough.

You just go through a certain kind of drudgery every time you have to look for something. I've got certain things grouped by now, but there's a drudgery in finding them. There's always stuff missing.

So here's something I know to be true, although it's a little corny, and I don't quite know what to do with it.

Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

I don't always want a big meal after work - just some crisps and wine!

I've never met an ugly millionaire. They all look cute. No wonder I married 4 of them