"Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading."

"The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self."

"Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness."

"As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be."

"At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist there can only be promise of the coming woman."

"Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me."

"Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women."

"Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever."