The harder we look at our aches and ailments, the more we will be startled by the painful truths they are trying to convey about our dangerously disembodied way of life.

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 dream of books!

Fall in love again and again.In life, love is the currency, spend it as much you can for an enormous gain.

The lucky fellow is the plucky fellow who has been burning midnight oil and taking defeat after defeat with a smile.

Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.

Every reminiscence is colored by the way things are today, and therefore by a delusive point of view.

I don't think the tabloids find me very interesting.

Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios.

If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.

Maybe it was my revenge on people who had been unkind to me as a child. But it was very easy and a thrill to freeze up children.

Idolatry happens when we take good things and make them ultimate things