Your relationship to yourself is and always will be directly reflected in all your relationships with others.

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.

Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art.

Shock doesn't hit all at once. I have learned.

He had become a monster. You just couldn't see it...because it wore the face of a friend.

I agree with Agassiz that dogs possess something very like conscience.

Prayer does not change the purpose of God. But prayer does change the action of God.

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.

I'm not into sports. I mean...I like Gatorade, but that's as far as it goes.

Nonviolence against humans cannot take firm hold in society as long as brutality and violence are practiced toward other animals.

I mean, where I come from, 'communism' is not a terrible word.

The minute a thing is long and complicated, it confuses. Whoever wrote the Ten Commandments made 'em short. They may not always be kept, but they are understood.