We are so ruled by what people tell us we must be that we have forgotten who we are.

To laugh is to risk appearing a fool, to weep is to risk appearing too sentimental, to reach out for another is to risk involvement, and to expose feelings is to risk exposing one's true self.

Every day we are offered new means for learning and growing in love.

There is only the moment. The now. Only what you are experiencing at this second is real.

The only people who become wealthy by being concerned with the future are insurance companies.

I was one of those fortunate individuals who grew up in a large, passionate, demonstrative Italian family where we were taught to love as naturally as we breathed and ate giant bowls of pasta!

You can only give away what you have ... If you have love, you can give it. If you don't have it, you don't have it to give.