Food is celebratory. People who don't cook don't know how much fun they're missing.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.

Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Be smart. You Only Die Once -YODO

Just because you don’t like peanut butter doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t like . . . peanuts.

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

Isn't it enough to be middle-aged and impeccably beautiful? Why must one be economically useful?

Watching great people do what you love is a good way to start learning how to do it yourself.

It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that everyone was forsaking me and going away from me.

Im the shyest megalomaniac youre ever likely to meet.

We all do better, when we all do better.

Women are enslaved by their own liberation.

When asked Who I Am, the only answer possible is: I am the infinite, the vastness that is the substance of all things. I am no one and everyone, nothing and everything -- just as you are.