What is the spiritual purpose of the arts? It is to learn structure. Once an artist creates a true structure, then divine love can pour into it and make it a living thing of beauty.

The greatest thing we can possibly gain from this life is the ability to love, and to love greatly.

Know that you are a spark of God and can exist fully only within the realization of that profound truth. As such, you are a light and inspiration to others.

If you keep in mind that love and love alone is the reason for living, it will calm your heart and free you from your worries.

We are learning to work with intuition, which actually is Soul giving us gentle guidance to make our life better.

Children have the wisdom of God and are closer to it than many people who have spent years in this world gaining all kinds of knowledge about the nature of religion. Children have it naturally.

The journey home to God is what life is about. In a sense it's not even a journey. It's an ongoing experience.

What prepares you for the true path of God? The experiences of life.

If we want to keep the blessings of life coming to us, we must learn to be grateful for whatever is given.

Love does not come to those who seek it, but to those who give love. It is a binding force between souls who have nothing to give but themselves to one another.

Before you can improve your life and find a measure of happiness, you must learn to do one thing every day out of pure love.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Holidays are the best. I couldn't imagine being from a small family.

Worry is essentially a misuse of imagination.

We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.

I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

When I'm working, I don't wear any makeup at all. Unless I am doing an event, I love to wear no makeup at all, which is hardly ever as I am working every day!

Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.

Learning can be defined as the process of remembering what you are interested in.

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

I was really poor for most of my adult life.