'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.

It must become a right of every person to die of old age. And if we secure this right for ourselves, we can, coincidentally, assure it for the planet.

I'm the most stubborn person I know.

Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.

You can't send me anywhere that I wouldn't be happy to go. You'd be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.

I'm not [a Buddhist]. The whole point of anything that is really, truly valuable to your soul, and your own growth, is not to attach to a teacher, but rather to find out what the real deal is in the world itself. You become your own guide. The teachings can help you, but really, we're all here with the opportunity the reality of hereness. We all have that. I trust that...I'm just not interested in labels. I find all of them constrictive. They're hard to wear. And they're hard to wear because we're always - hopefully - growing.

My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God. I'm a child of that.