Dear God...I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me.

We alone can devalue gold by not caring if it falls or rises in the marketplace. Wherever there is gold there is a chain, you know, and if your chain is gold so much the worse for you.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.

Not only will your teachers appear, but they will cook new foods for you.

To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.