“The obstacles in our path are not blocking us-they are redirecting us. Their purpose is not to interfere with our happiness; it is to point us toward new routes to our happiness, new possibilities, new doorways.”

There has never been, and never again will be a human being like you. There is nothing ordinary about you. If you feel ordinary, it is because you have chosen to hide the extraordinary parts of yourself from the world.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It’s a choice you make on your wedding day, and over and over again and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband.

Love and kindness are never wasted.

Silence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth.

Happiness is not an acquisition – it is a skill. We do not experience happiness because of what we get. We experience happiness because of how we live each moment.

I invite people to examine their lives without negativity, knowing that it’s scary, but that not doing it is even scarier.

Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

When will you know you have enough, and what will you do then?

All relationships are your mirrors and all people are your teachers.

Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.

May all that is not love within us and without be healed. May all that is love within us and without us be revealed. May every day of our lives be lived in love.

No one betrays us as much in our lives as we betray ourselves.

Passion acts like a magnet that attracts us to its source. We are drawn to people who radiate with passion, who live with passion, who breathe with passion. Your passion is your true power. The more you discover and express your passion for life, the more irresistible you will become to others.

no job is a good job if it isn’t good for you.

It takes a lot of courage to be the same person on the outside that you are on the inside.

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. The heart will break… but broken live on.

At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.

You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.

I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.

When we were at the Apollo, Holiday was a block away. I asked her for her autograph.

I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It’s not just about being able to run around the block a few times.

Everybody was happy my brother was locked up.

When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart.

It ain’t made for everybody, but I knocked a lot of blocks down.