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

Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.

Patricia Ireland

His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him.

Tahereh Mafi

You can go to a play that is enjoyable because it's funny, and then on the next night you can go to a play that's enjoyable because it's 'disturbing.'

Wallace Shawn

I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.

Susan George

What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.

Yoko Ono

I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me!

Cy Coleman

The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.

Lester Bangs

Your daily life is your temple and your religion.

Kahlil Gibran

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

William Shakespeare

When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.

Billie Jean King

How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot of which he has chosen or which chance has thrown his way, but praises those who follow a different course?

Horace

I wish we lived in a society that made it safe and provided the courage for everyone to come out.

Judith Light