Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

You seem so clear about who you are. So certain that you are just right as you are, that for all your intelligence and maybe in spite of it, you never seem to need a second opinion.

Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.

A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world.

What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.

She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.

When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.