A threat to our freedom is a threat to our freedom, whether from a terrorist or from a trade deal.
In our society, as people pass out of young adulthood, they tend to relate to themselves more in terms of what they are no longer than what they are now, and that's psychologically low-grade devastating.
Spiritual growth and spirituality always seem suspect to some people.
The daughters of God don't brake for jerks.
Marriage can be a magnificent lesson in becoming our best selves; that is true.
Being a parent gives you historical perspective. You have thoughts about how you fit into a larger generational drama - those who came before and those who will come after.
The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.
It's tempting, when confronted by political malfeasance, to become so absorbed with its symptom that we give too little attention to treating its cause.
There is nothing that a military machine can do to work a miracle.
Anyone who isn't confused or conflicted on the topic of Israel probably isn't looking into it too deeply.
In my first book, 'A Return to Love', I wrote about things in the outer world that need to change - how we need to ameliorate deep poverty, heal the earth, end war.
Throughout my career I have been an advocate for women, in all aspects of their lives.
Movies can be instruments of enlightenment.
I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.
The undue influence of money on our politics is like a cancer underlying other cancers, the issue underlying all other issues.
Now if you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - because a nation is simply a large group of individuals.
The Republican corporatists are worse than the Democratic corporatists, but only to a degree. And Republican corporatists are at least true to their principles, however abhorrent those principles might be to some of us.
I didn't realize that running as an independent would be perceived as a threat to the Democrats.
A lot of my traditional audience does not appreciate my foray into politics.
God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.
