When Emily Dickinson writes, “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul,” she reminds us, as the birds do, of the liberation and pragmatism of belief.

To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.

The Eyes of the Future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.

I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.

The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leaves.

Despair shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations shared create collaboration, collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change.

Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

the unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.

There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why.

Our power lies in our love of our homelands.

Due to your merit karma, your efforts will bring you success and when the merit karma is expended, your efforts will bring in losses.

Integrity is the source of new solutions and innovations

The natural gods of men are other men, mythic or real, who embody manhood in men's eyes.

The existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate.

I actually remember feeling delight at two o'clock in the morning when the baby woke for his feed because I so longed to have another look at him.

When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.

I always write the best that I can. And I won't publish it until I have done it right.

The hardest thing for a musician to learn is how to play WITH people. That's what made the Basie rhythm section.

Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.

Veracity is the heart of morality.