We all dream of being exactly what we are – powerful, beautiful, and worthy.

The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.

A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.

Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.

Temporary, but excruciating, pain is the price of healing.

There is no transcending our minds, only using them optimally.

The self-judging person will always judge others. The rubric we develop for ourselves, the measuring stick we put against our own mind and body, generalizes to every other human being.

Love is more abundant than we could possibly imagine. Just like there is more air than we could possibly breathe in, there is more love than we could possibly perceive.

The next stage of evolution is the evolution of perception, the evolution of the mind.

This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul.

The mind, just like the body, becomes exactly what it is fed. While the body is nourished by food, the mind is nourished by thoughts.

Mockery is childish. It does not become you.

There were many groups working for women's rights, but none of them dealt with the root cause of women's oppression-religion.

All women deserve access to care that can save their lives.

I'm not interested in plots. I'm interested only in the characterization of people and what they do.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

To believe in'the greater good' isto operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.

Man is the merriest species of the creation; all above or below him are serious.

I'm a sucker for interiors and carefully, beautifully filmed people sitting in a big room. My appetites are simple.

Reality is divinely indifferent.

It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue