Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening seldom sinful and permanently personal.

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.

Love can only be true and free when you are fully healed from painful past and any form of brokenness.

In the end, it was the secrets that held me hostage and fuelled my depression, but, once released, emancipation - from fear, shame, guilt and judgement - was finally possible.

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

We're all physical bodies, but basically everything we do is determined by what goes on in our heads. The only person who ever stops me from achieving something is me.

Embracing our dark side gives us a new found freedom to be with the darkness in others. For when I can love all of me, I will love all of you.

Learn this from the waters: in mountain clefts and chasms, loud gush the streamlets, but great rivers flow silently.

There will always be a few people who just want to knock you down or are jealous or just want to be horrible for the sake of it. I don't know what drives someone to be nasty.

Indian people are relics; we do not exist in the present.

My first account was Neiman Marcus. I cold-called them just like I had cold-called businesses when I was selling fax machines for seven years.