I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.

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.

That is how we become wise, by living each day attending to the lessons God puts in our path.

Every day, do one thing to help someone without expecting anything in return.

Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.

You don't have to know someone your whole life to know them. Not really. Lonely is the same everywhere.

Down to Gehenna or up to the throne He travels the fastest who travels alone.

Trees are not known by their leaves, nor even by their blossoms, but by their fruits.

If you look at the CEOs of some the most successful companies in the world like IKEA, they never fly first class. They always go economy.

People cannot live by lending money to one another.

If a woman feels anchored to a man's plans, she may start to resent him for the fun she's worried she's missing.

You always need to find the balance in the science, but the balance to talking about evolutionary theory is not to talk about creationism, that's not a balance, that's misleading and it's just wrong.