There is an increasingly pervasive sense that one age is over and a new one is beginning - in business, in politics, in science, in psychology.

I know. And that's what took me so long

A hero is someone who stands in the community and speaks their hopes and speaks their passion. That's almost an act of heroism nowadays because higher consciousness is so trivialized.

Behind every fear, there is a miracle waiting.

Judaism, Christianity, and I'm sure other religions also, are having to deal with the fact that they may or may not have lived up at all times to the injunctions of their own mystical center. For instance, when I went to Sunday school, I remember learning more about Jewish history than about God. So, once again, that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the Jewish religion, it just means that sometimes people are not fed the mystical food - the spiritual food - of their own religious background.

I think every writer lives for the thought that there will be a moment when somebody reads something on the page and says, "Yes!"

The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through