Your job is to allow the Holy Spirit to remove the fearful thinking that surrounds your perfect self.

If I had to choose between a narrow-minded woman or a man who was an enlightened thinker, I would vote for the man.

We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm.

Some professional writers write everyday no matter what and perhaps that's the way it should be done, but it's not the way I do it. If I'm not pregnant with words and I'm not in labor with them, I don't even try to bring them forth because they won't be any good anyway. Once I'm ready to deliver, it's like being pregnant. I've got to find a typewriter or a piece of paper. The only words that have ever had any possible value to others seem to have been those words that just had to come out.

There is, inside all our heads, the ego’s rabid attack dog. It is purely vicious toward others and toward ourselves as well. Learning to control that dog, and ultimately to end its life, is the process and purpose of enlightened relationships.

It's difficult to be alive in America today and truly be in denial anymore. It's not hip to be unconscious or uninvolved. One of our great strengths is that we're an optimistic people, but that doesn't mean we don't have sad days.

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