Fear ain't respect—how could I have ever thought it was?

The three most important words in a relationship are not, 'I love you, ' but, 'Tell me more.

There isn't any good or bad, everything is either a product of pure awareness or sheer ignorance!

'Swan, ' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.

True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.

I inspired a new generation in the same way the previous generation inspired me. I believe that our democracy itself is very inspiring.

There are two kinds of women--those who eat in a crisis and those who lose their appetite in a crisis.

I enjoy having some boundaries to work within. That's why I generally don't like alternate tunings and stuff like that. I like the boundaries of regular tunings.

Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience, finds in nature the 'correspondences' through which we may know our boundless selves.

Roger (Maris) was a class act and I know exactly what he went through.

No one will ever know what I went through to secure those negatives. The world can never appreciate it. It changed the whole course of my life.