I believe what I practice has to do with something deeper than religion, that it embodies all religions, including Judaism. And Christianity. And Islam.

I don't care if you hate me or love me, as long as I make you think.

With every breath, I'm deeper in you.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

I always acted like a star long before I was one.

Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.

We are what comes to us and by what we choose to fulfill. We learn love by experiencing other people loving us and by cultivating compassion for all humankind.

We are to till the soil and work the land—not worship it.

Take a chance on God. After all, He took a chance on you.

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in her bed for both.

The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn.

People think, mistakenly, that etiquette means you have to suppress your differences. On the contray, etiquette is what enables you to deal with them; it gives you a set of rules.

The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.

Being in the same room with people and creating something together is a good thing.

When you dishonor the the utter glory and majesty of black people, you lie. Your heart lies to you and you let it