"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up."

"We must not inflict life on children who will be resented we must not inflict unwanted children on society."

"The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth."

"I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy."

"A courageous heart knows that authenticity is the rarest and most beautiful asset."

"The beauty of the unknown is that the true master is an eternal student."

"The beauty of the unknown is that the essence of humanity is our ability to connect."

"The tapestry of existence shows us that authenticity is the rarest and most beautiful asset."