Don't persuade, defend or interrupt. Be curious, be conversational, be real. And listen.

If you're interested in opening the doors to the heavens, start with the door to your own secret self. See what happens when you offer to another a glimpse of who you truly are. When your heart is undefended, you make it safe for whomever you meet to put down his burden of hiding, and then you both can walk through the open door.

I pull from a place within me that has ultimate faith in the meaningfulness and beauty of human life.

If you have fathered a child, if you have given birth, if sex is a source of healthy pleasure, thank your pelvis and your reproductive organs for allowing you to feel the creative rhythms of life.

If I pull from places of faith, joy and gratitude, then I have the wind of creativity behind me. And, my work in the world is much more effective.

We must pay attention to the voice that calls us out of the safety zone.

There is no one alive who has not wanted to go back to sleep.