It is easy to be mindless in America, because dreaming of and living for a better tomorrow is the American way. ... The problem is, in the second half of the twentieth century, we have gotten so good at living for tomorrow that most of us spend very little time in the present.

Passion begins where your bodies unite and ends where your souls dance. When your spirits can join together at the same time as your bodies become one, then all of you will be making love. There will be nothing left between you that is not love. This is sacred communion. This is ecstasy.

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.

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.

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

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