[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I'd choose to believe in God - He's been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.

Grief does not end and love does not die and nothing fills its graven place. With grace, pain is transmuted into the gold of wisdom and compassion and the lesser coin of muted sadness and resignation; but something leaden of it remains, to become the kernel arond which more pain accretes (a black pearl): one pain becomes every other pain ... unless one strips away, one by one, the layers of pain to get to the heart of the pain - and this causes more pain, pain so intense as to feel like evisceration.

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

Weather creates character.

Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.

Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.

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