I actually have a degree in music and was aware that music was a tool used in therapy. I didn't realize how far it had come since I was in college in the mid-seventies.

All women are goddesses, and it's just a matter of letting that goddess-power shine - and if you don't try to be the biggest and baddest damn goddess you can be, you are selling yourself short.

When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler.

We meditate so we can see miracles unfolding. Without stillness life is a blur.

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

When the king gets depressed, he doesn't call for his wife. He doesn't call for the cook. He calls for the court jester.

I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out and spits out blood and all that stuff.

Whatever obstacles appear in your path, put your head down and get past them. Those obstacles aren't real. They're just God's way of testing you. He's asking you, 'Do you want to make it or not?'

Number one, like yourself. Number two, you have to eat healthy. And number three, you've got to squeeze your buns. That's my formula.

There is no better way to bring people together than with desserts.

Stop running to those who ignore you and start running to those who adore you.

Only when we pray for one another, we will have peace.

Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.

Urdu can not die out because it has very strong roots in Persia. The language itself is not only just the language of the Muslims, but it's also the language of the Hindus.

Reason must sit at the knee of instinct and learn reverence for the miraculous instinctual capacity for creation.

You could do a hundred projects and still not have the fans that are there for Twilight.

I've always tried to keep my cover prices on the low side. I'm more interested in getting people to read the books we publish and less interested in the profit margin.

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

I still feel like an immature idiot inside, but I look in the mirror and - as a friend of mine once said- this old guy keeps getting in the way.

I have never been awake before.

I know for sure that everything will work out. No matter how crazy or bleak the situation is, it will work out. Everything passes, good and bad.