Storytelling is at the heart of life. As a child, I was never bored because I could always get on with my story.

Once we get used to listening to our dreams, our whole body responds like a musical instrument.

At the very point of vulnerability is where the surrender takes place-that is where the god enters. The god comes through the wound.

But if you travel far enough, one day you will recognize yourself coming down to meet yourself. And you will say - yes.

An addiction is anything we do to avoid hearing the messages that body and soul are trying to send us.

This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never known.

It takes great courage to break with one's past history and stand alone.

The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or sweetness.

Rage and bitterness do not foster femininity. They harden the heart and make the body sick.

To strive for perfection is to kill love because perfection does not recognize humanity.

The mystery of God touches us - or does not - in the smallest details: giving a strawberry, with love; receiving a touch, with love; sharing the snapdragon red of an autumn sunset, with love.

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

Every vice of the Empire has been repeated in the Foundation. Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

We found out that you can't pass on acquired things like bigotry, prejudice, greed. That's all learned in your culture or your sub-culture

It takes 3 girls to tow always; two to hold the rope, and the other one runs round and round, and giggles.

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath.

I stand for limited government, fiscal responsibility, personal freedom, personal responsibility, so the Republican Party will support me.

It is a basilisk unto mine eye, Kills me to look on't.