Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!

The big thing about writing is three commands: Have fun. Don't think. Don't care.

Sense of family is enormously important to me. In the larger sense, we're all of us family; we're all of us soulmates.

Whatever happens on the surface, it's leading us in a direction. That beautiful core within us that is our character will make choices that will inevitably leads us to a higher understanding of who we are and why we're here. And it's best to be aware of that while it's happening.

The books remind us that way down deep in our hearts, part of us knows that we are creatures of light and we cannot be touched or destroyed by anything made out of atoms or destroyed at all - that light is indestructible. And we may reflect that and express that in multiple trillions of discrete ways, but nevertheless, that indestructible sense of joyful capacity to express life and express love is always there.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

How can a deer tell when a leaf falls silent in the forest? She hears it breathing differently.