I always say a tremendous amount of healing is in your own hands.

Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes.

When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.

Once cancer happens it changes the way you live for the rest of your life.

I have a lot of mirrors around my house, not because I like to look at myself, but because I like the light and perspective they bring to a room.

I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden.

Roses are my favourite flower, and my mum always grew a lot of them.

Do I think I'm under-educated? Academically, absolutely. I never took any exams, no O- or A-levels.

In my life, things have happened to me. I've never felt I was controlling anything.

My best feature is my hair.

I have a horror of being in confined spaces. Potholing is my idea of hell.

As with all matters of the heart, the odds may not be in our favour but it is the only risk worth taking.

If you did not live lovingly and love deeply, you would not feel the pain of separation. But neither would you feel the joy, passion, and happiness that living fully and loving deeply bring.

What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?

Only when YOU let go of YOURSELF will the real you surface.

People are just trying to work their jobs, raise their families, discipline their kids, and have a good life... Politics has just become like bad weather. And they deserve clear skies.

A verse from the Veda says, 'What you see, you become.' In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you are. This is a quite literal statement.

Leap hearts to lips, and in our kisses meet.

America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German - German in my soul.

You can't just buy things for the label - it's ridiculous.

A friend is more concerned about helping people than getting credit. A friend cares. A friend loves. A friend listens. And a friend reaches out.