I don't think that my twenties were any more dramatic than those of most people I know. I was never that bad and I never became that good.

You've done the bourgeois thing, perhaps, but let's not call that love.

Love has a way of showing you to yourself, whether through satisfaction or humiliation. It hovers over you like a magnifying glass you cannot escape, intensifying the slightest feelings of either delight or shame. No other experience makes so obvious the realities of both heaven and hell.

Spiritual progress is like a detoxification.

I find being a mother harder than I though it was going to be. That is a tremendous revelation for me personally. Much more time, more care, more attention and more effort needs to be spent on care for the children. That will save the world at large.

I'm not bowled over by how different all the world's religions are - I'm bowled over by how similar they are.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.