As far as I'm concerned, there is only one absolute: God is love.

I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they help me to be fully alive on this journey, and show me that I must be willing to go where it takes me, even through the valley of the shadow.

Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

you've got to learn to walk through a pigpen and not get dirty.

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.

I looked at this tiny, perfect creature and it was as though a light switch had been turned on. A great rush of love flooded out of me.