Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.

The key to intimacy is the commitment to honesty and to the radical forgiveness necessary in order for honesty to be safe.

You need not apologize for being brilliant, talented, gorgeous, rich, or smart.

the spiritual meaning of every situation [is] not what happens to us, but what we do with what happens to us and who we decide to become because of what happens to us. The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through.

In our ability to think about something differently lies the power to make it different.

If you know what changes a heart, you know what changes the world.

Behind every fear, there is a miracle waiting.