Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred.

Your love Should never be offered to the mouth of a Stranger, Only to someone Who has the valor and daring To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife Then weave them into a blanket To protect you.

Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.

I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'

I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

I am in love with every church And mosque And temple And any kind of shrine Because I know it is there That people say the different names Of the One God.

Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.

Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of light...And let it breathe.

This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.

You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.

Judging others is too often escapism dressed in the garb of righteous indignation, whereby I dutifully point out in others that which I probably should be pointing out in myself.

Remember each new day you get to turn a page in your life and write your own story. So how do you choose to write it?

Without women, humanity will be history.

Use positive affirmations to shift your mindset and re-train your brain for positivity.

Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him; and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket.

No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.

Toys are not a need people typically think of, but they've got all these kids who have absolutely nothing to do.

I'm just doing what I've done my whole life, which is talking to people about books and making them read. It's what I do in my friendships. "Here, you have to read this, you have to read this."

Each person was himself one alone. One oneness, a unit in a society, but always afraid, always alone. If I should scream, if I should call for help, would anyone hear would it even matter?

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.