Compassion takes imagination.

For me, running is about freedom. I find that the freer I feel, the faster I am.

Inside every woman there is a Kali. [Hindu goddess who morphed into seven hidden beings to win a battle] Do not mistake the exterior for the interior.

Love is large; love defies limits. People talk about the sanctity of love -- love is by definition sacred. Not some love between some people, but all love between all people.

Love is the greatest light, the brightest torch, and will always be the greatest instrument of change.

Giving feels good. It is a form of healing. Not just for you as an individual, but for everyone.

Of course, the surest way to free yourself from an existential crisis is through comedy.

You can have the 'golden rule' - do unto others as you would have others do unto you. But then you take it one step farther - where you just do good unto others, period. Just for the sake of it.

My husband does so many romantic things for me, it's absurd.

At any given moment in your life, you have the choice between love and fear. And that's a choice you make. You make the choice of how you react to events.

Love is the most dangerous thing in the world.

Maybe all you need to pull you back form the ledge is to know someone would miss you if you fell.

When the Sun of compassion arises darkness evaporates and the singing birds come from nowhere.

I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.

I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life.

[On Marilyn Monroe:] Her body has gone to her head.

Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.

A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words.... Statements are made, words or sentences are used.

Beauty matters. It is not just a subjective thing but a universal need of human beings. If we ignore this need we find ourselves in a spiritual desert.

But only agony, and that has ending; And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.

I love fashion - I really feel it's where I belong.