We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.

I think our children are afraid to die because we're afraid to die.

Affecting the world is obviously possible when we see people in the world who we really love and respect and we see how that they affect our lives.

Nothing can cost you someone you love. The only thing that can cost you your husband is if you believe a thought. That's how you move away from him. That's how the marriage ends. You are one with your husband until you believe the thought that he should look a certain way, he should give you something, he should be something other than what he is. That's how you divorce him. Right then and there you have lost your marriage.

Fear is always the result of an unquestioned past imagined as a future.

We cannot see what we don't believe.

One morning as I lay sleeping on the floor, a cockroach crawled over my foot. And I opened my eyes out of this dead sleep - about a 43-year sleep - and in place of all that darkness was a joy that I can't describe.