Compassion in action may be the glorious possibility that could protect our crowded, polluted planet.

"Make your plate look like a Christmas tree," I tell people, "mostly green with splashes of other bright colors."

Growing into your future ... requires a dedication to caring for yourself as if you were rare and precious, which you are, and regarding all life around you as equally so, which it is.

I think most of us look at personal delights as somewhere between minimally important and borderline immoral. We like them, but we're not sure we ought to. We seldom give them a high priority when other demands are competing for our attention. Nevertheless, the soul feeds on simple joys and withers without them.

Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.

If you celebrate your differentness, the world will, too. It believes exactly what you tell it.

Home is the place where you are most thoroughly yourself, with no pretenses.