Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

They're basically moments in which you're in touch with the meaning of life, when your relationship to the rest of the universe makes sense.

That experience showed me that I-from moment to moment-am the only person in control of my connection to God. It's not that God is deciding to connect with me, depending on whether I had a good day, or did good or bad deeds. It's all up to me. God, the awareness of God, the love of God, the blessings of God-that lively ecstasy-is always there. It's me who separates from God by judging, by indulging in negativity, by criticizing myself, as well as others.

A wise word is more rare than the green emerald, and one can find the word of wisdom even amongst the slave girls making grain.

Silence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth.

You can't ask for what you want unless you know what it is. A lot of people don't know what they want or they want much less than they deserve. First you have figure out what you want. Second, you have to decide that you deserve it. Third, you have to believe you can get it. And, fourth, you have to have the guts to ask for it

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. The heart will break... but broken live on.