We cling to the comfortable rather than step out into the possible.

Taken slowly, or mindfully, even eating an orange or a bowl of soup, or a small piece of dark chocolate for that matter, can take on the flavor or prayer.

prepare your food in keeping with monastic traditions—simple, basic, healthy, balanced.

Only by emptying ourselves out before God will we find fullness within ourselves.

Imagination is a confident hope.

It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.

We're always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying to be a better person or whatever.

Troubles, even the dullest, are always mildly interesting at the first hearing.

We are intent on building a movement. The next step is grassroots town meetings. We must keep alive the dialogue around the covenants.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell. We can't dance synonyms.

When we give way to joy, we do not feel that we have lost control, but gained freedom.

I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.

You continue to evolve with each album that goes by and, as an artist, you continue to expand with every recording project.