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

What is happening in politics today is a similar process to what happened in the medical world a few decades ago: realizing that there's more to healing than just addressing symptoms. Primary paradigm when it comes to dealing with political and social disease is allopathic: Pass a law, lock someone up, engage in warfare. And the state of the world today makes it clear that such allopathic measures have not exactly brought peace to all.

Real intimacy; real love has to do with a joining of the mind, a joining of the spirit, a joining of the heart.

If you allow yourself to deepen with midlife, your experience of everything deepens, including your experience of God.

The deepest feelings always show itself in silence.

I'm not a doom-and-gloom person. But I think there is a difference between transcendence and denial, and much of the Western world is in major denial today.

The way I see it, we teach our children through modeling.