The work of intimacy, of course, is to learn to both show your own illumination, and to see it in a way that the physical eyes cannot reveal. In a way that only the heart can reveal: the illumined beauty in another person.

A long-term romance is like a rose bush. In any given season, a blossom might fall off. But if the plant is well nourished, then the season will come around again, and new blossoms appear.

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. When you choose to love, you choose to work miracles.

The role of a leader is not to rule over other people, but to hold a space for their own genius.

But beauty itself is not given to us by anyone; it is a power we have within us from the gate, a radiance inside us.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

Sadness is just a place on the map. Don't try to avoid it, resist it or escape through substances. Settle it, allow it, and it will go.