People crave comfort, people crave connection, people crave community.

I also think the women's movement has unintentionally contributed to the dishonoring of motherhood. It happened because we made such a big deal about our right to go out into the world.

It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.

The world loves us when we choose to love the world.

Achievement doesn't come from what we do, but from who we are. Our worldly power results from our personal power. Our career is an extension of our personality.

What a Beethoven, Shakespeare or Picasso has done is not create something, so much as they have accessed that place within themselves from which they could express that which has been created by God.

I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering.