I have hope, because I believe in miracles.

If we come to see that this world does not have the final word, then we open our mind and therefore our entire lives to experience the possibility of infinite possibilities.

Our most meaningful conversations go on late at night when we're on the phone with our friends or talking to our lovers.

Any time we read a newspaper or take any look at the world around us, we are aware of the cruelty and violence that dominates our world.

Choosing joy involves spiritual surrender, and sometimes we would rather hold on to the pain than surrender our egos.

Our hearts are being stretched to span the violence and the suffering in our lives and world, and at the same time we are also witness to so much magnificence and brilliance. We are a species that has produced nuclear weapons, and also one that has developed profound insight into the nature of life itself.

I don't think that my twenties were any more dramatic than those of most people I know. I was never that bad and I never became that good.