Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close.

Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.

Something very beautiful happens to people when their world's fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor.

No company or organization filled with unhappy people will ultimately rise to its highest potential.

I think the greatest gift we can give our children is to show them that devotion to God's purposes - love for all beings - is the center of all right living.

I surrender it to God, knowing that the pain itself is a product or a reflection of how I am interpreting whatever it is that is causing me pain. Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief. I try to be kinder to myself. I give myself time to move through and to process whatever is making me sad.

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.