The patriarchal model of spirituality was, I think, a necessary step, as a baby learns to crawl before it walks.

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.

The best things in life are free. And it is important never to lose sight of that. So look around you. Wherever you see friendship, loyalty, laughter, and love...there is your treasure.

Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow.

FEAR is an acronym in the English language for 'False Evidence Appearing Real'.

Everything is falling together perfectly, even though it looks as if some things are falling apart. Trust in the process you are now experiencing.

A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.

If you don't go within, you go without.

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.

Hell is the opposite of joy. It is unfulfillment. It is knowing Who and What You Are, and failing to experience that. It is being less.

The great commandment is that we preach the gospel to every creature, but neither God nor the Bible says anything about forcing it down people's throats.

Not all the friends who say they are yours are friends indeed

Now I am shut up with his mother on Bramble farm and she is no better for conversation than prune whip

If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.

My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.

For me, the '80s were like the drawing by Botticelli of the nine rings of hell.

The mind is stronger than any muscle.

One of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible.

With my Roman Catholic upbringing, I have a set of principles that serve me well in good times and bad.

I constantly tour, even when I don't have a record out.