We all know, intuitively, that if something is humanly possible, it is possible for ourselves.

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.

Keeping up with him would require running, and there is no dignity in running after any man for any reason, injured or not.

to be a poet meansto live with a permanent wound forever susceptibleto either the shade of the skyor someone's eyes.

Turn your talent loose with room to run. Talent wants to romp and play.

I saw no reason why childhood shouldn't last forever. So I created clothes that worked and moved and allowed people to run, to jump, to leap, to retain their precious freedom.

When we are willing to accept our experience, just as it is, a strange thing happens: it changes into something else. When we avoid pain, struggle not to feel it, pain turns into suffering.

You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?

The real work of social innovation is to fix our broken human systems.

Every actor is different so you cannot become best friends on Day One. You just have to learn to know each other.

I may be a lifelong 'downtowner,' but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York City.

When we experience stress, the nervous system tries to control things. Part of waking up is discovering what we are beyond that controlling organism.