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

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.

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

It is at the bottom where we find grace; for like water, grace seeks the lowest place and there it pools up.

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

The length, the depth and the strength of your relationship is determined more by your compatibility in the difficult times than by your compatibility in the better times.

Empty yourself of past resentment, anger, and sadness to fill it with love and pure happiness.

I wanted to soothe and comfort her, the way she had comforted her daughters.

Talk about dance? Dance is not something to talk about. Dance is to dance.

One of the things you discover about being president is that there are all these rules and norms and laws and you got to pay attention to them.

Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.

I've read that under trauma, that you have this ability to kind of disconnect from the experience.

Savings will not make you rich. Only canny investments do that. The role of savings is to keep you from becoming poor.

Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.