Even the smallest shift in perspective can bring about the greatest healing.

Not your appearance, but your humility and power of love define your beauty.

Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life and that person was you. It is not too late to become that person again.

Human kind cannot bear very much reality.

Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.

An emotion as much tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something.

If you wish for peace, understand war.

The relentless attempts to be thin take you further and further away from what could actually end your suffering: getting back in touch with who you really are. Your true nature. Your essence.

From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.

Choice matters. You might have the opportunity to eat a nutritious diet, though you might choose to eat a lousy diet. What matters is the opportunity.

It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person - beguiled, enchanted.