Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.

Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.

Silence is the garment of light.

All our loves are contained in all our other loves.