“Listening is much more effective than trying to stop thought or cut it off.”

You breathe when you walk. You breathe when you stand. You breathe when you lie down.

A trust in the fundamental orderliness of the universe.

There is no way that we can understand it all. So the heart’s response to that mystery is faith.

If you have time to breathe you have time to meditate.

That which is threatening to the ego is liberating to the heart.

The best way to deal with excessive thinking is to just listen to it, to listen to the mind.

English dialogues are always just what you need and nothing more – like something out of Hemingway. In Italian and in French, dialogues are always theatrical, literary. You can do more with it.

You have a right to be angry with the perpetrator, regardless of who it was, how long ago the sexual abuse occurred, or how much he/she has changed.

You can make a point without being personal. Don’t insult or belittle your people. Instead of getting more out of them you will get less

Nobody has that vulnerability any more. We turn to child models in an instinctive search for that innocence and freshness, but they don’t have the deep feminine sexuality that came from Marilyn like light.

The more things you own, the more people you need to employ.

I’ve been right more than I’ve been wrong.

These two are not two, love has made them one. Amo Ergo Sum! And by its mystery each is no less but more.

Once we allow ourselves to do evil so that some perceived good may follow, we allow ever greater evils for the sake of ever more questionable goods, until we consent to the greatest evils for the sake of mere trifles.