There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations.

Yoga is the effort to experience one's divinity personally and then to hold on to that experience forever.

I spent a week living as a man. Which was actually, I'm sorry to say, embarrassingly easy for me to do.

The world needs women who stop asking for permission from the principal. Permission to live their lives as they deeply know they often should. I think we still look to authority figures for validation, recognition, permission.

The thing I love about Dickens is the omniscient, omnipotent narrator, and the great confidence of the narrator, which marks 19th-century novelists in general and Dickens in particular.

Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.

The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness.