...like my own granddad used to say, if you get down to the nub of it, people don't change.That's not true, Katie thought. Not at all. Everyone changed, all the time. That was what was so hard.

You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.

Her father had learned only one thing in prison. Not humility, nor patience, nor understanding...Marshall Kofer had learned to listen, at least to his daughter".

There is time for everything.

What people see in the news are places where things have not going so well.

When the country goes temporarily to the dogs, cats must learn to be circumspect, walk on fences, sleep in trees, and have faith that all this woofing is not the last word.

The people who raised me musically are my mother, who is a classically trained pianist, and my stepfather.

If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.

Intuition is the conscious experience - in pure spirit - of a purely spiritual content.

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

Let go into the mystery Let yourself go You've got to open up your heart That's all I know Trust what I say and do what you're told Baby, and all your dirt will turn Into gold.