As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

I try to live what I consider a "poetic existence." That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take up. I try to be immediate, to be totally present for all my work.

Beneath the skin, beyond the differing features and into the true heart of being, fundamentally, we are more alike, my friend, than we are unalike.

A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.

It may in fact be utterly impossible to be successful without helping others to become successful.

I married a man once and we had been married over a year before I found he preferred potatoes. I said, "I didn't know you loved potatoes." And he said that until he was about 13, he thought rice was potato seeds.