Ahimsa and love are one and the same thing.

Where there is love there is life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

The future depends on what you do today.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

The writer is neither saint nor tzaddik nor prophet standing at the gate

Running wild in a field of exclamations, chasing question marks

If I hadn't been a woman, I'd be a drag queen for sure. I like all that flair and I'd be dressing up in them high heels and putting on the big hair. I'd be like Ru Paul.

I think it's an accumulation of work over the years, culminating with our work during the Hurricane Katrina-Rita relief effort.

One hour of love has a whole life in it.

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory

When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.

I think because of my background - I went through university and did an academic career and fell into acting - I've never had a game plan for my career because I got into it quite ad hoc.

Its like a Contiki tour, getting on and off buses, getting pissed.

There were a lot of songs that I still wanted to put on the album but it worked out. I can only fit 18 [tracks] on the album, I would put 30 if I could.