When a woman gives birth, two are born: a baby from the womb of its mother and a woman from the womb of her former existence.

When somebody comes up to you and shows you yellow underlining of something you wrote, that's such a high. It's a connection to others.

Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

When we stop trying to control events, they fall into a natural order, an order that works. We're at rest while a power much greater than our own takes over, and it does a much better job than we could have done. We learn to trust that the power that holds galaxies together can handle the circumstances of our relatively little lives.

Faith doesn't mean you don't have to do the work; it just means you're absolutely certain the work will pay off.

I think that's what we all want on this earth - to feel that at some level we have connected with other human beings.