Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

I used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

Pay attention, don’t let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

I know love is the answer.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

It’s often just enough to be with someone. I don’t need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You’re not alone.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I’d be a damn‘ fool if they weren’t.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they’re gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you’re going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

Where thou art, that is home.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

When someone is impatient and says, ‚I haven’t got all day,‘ I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

I’m all about peace. I’m all about unity. I’m all about love.

The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

We’re hardwired for connection. There’s no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we’re trying to hot-wire it.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

It’s been wonderful for me, and I feel so privileged to have fans that are that loyal.