Again--nothing you do or think or wish or make is necessary to establish your worth.

I see the universe as naturally and infinitely self-correcting.

I have seen so much obstructed potential among people who lack personal discipline, who just slough it off, whatever it is, and who think that nothing matters very much. I want my daughter to have what I think of as a capacity for self-discipline. Not the sort of self-discipline that diminishes her own wild passions, but that makes it safer for her to own those wild passions.

Trying to suppress or eradicate symptoms on the physical level can be extremely important, but there's more to healing than that; dealing with psychological, emotional and spiritual issues involved in treating sickness is equally important.

If your eyes were open to all the beauty in the world, you would be overwhelmed with joy.

The U.S. incarcerates more of its people than any nation in the world, or any nation in history.

In the Jewish religion it says - in the time of deepest darkest night act as if the morning has already come