Healing and positive life change comes from having the courage and spiritual conviction to look squarely at life's impermanence.

The most important part of any relationship is allowing others to choose their own response to a situation, and of course this is the most difficult part.

No one spiritual path is better than another, although one may accept the universe's role in life more than another.

Every living thing is both a whole system in and of itself as well as an essential part of other systems.

A true spiritual teacher knows more than he or she necessarily verbalizes, using temperance and love to be guided to say what is appropriate.

The stripping away of illusion and the struggle to find personal reality can be likened to the peeling of an apple. As one peels away the layers of unreality. . . eventually only the core remains.

When we are unable to love and appreciate ourselves and our efforts, we run away from our mistakes and failures, rather than learning from them.

Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should? ­

No innocent man buys a gun, and no happy man writes his memoirs.

The need to treat ourselves as well as we treat others. It's women's version of the Golden Rule.

We will strengthen our country when we come together.

All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.

The team that trusts-their leader and each other-is more likely to be successful.

Jazz is America's own. It is played and listened to by all peoples - in harmony together. Pigmentation differences have no place... as in genuine democracy, only performance counts.

By the way, that's my number one piece of advice if you're going to join a startup: pick a rocket ship.

I think the perception of wealth and power is that things just become easier and easier when in reality as you raise the stakes things become more stressful.

Love is based on inequality as friendship is on equality.