I've always been passionate about fashion.

For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering.

I had something nobody else could do - I sang in a way that separated me - and, when you're trying to get noticed, you play your trump card.

How can you be of service to something other than your own ego and bank account, in a business that's inherently narcissistic?

I would love to be able to turn my recording career into something that is substantial, and where I can go and tour with an orchestra.

Just to say 'I believe' or 'I do not doubt' does not mean that you understand and see. To force oneself to see and accept a thing without understanding is political and not spiritual or intellectual.

You are the candle, love is the light, enlighten the mind, and heart with your empowering light.

I took note of the Buddha's teaching that in one sense a supposed enemy is more valuable than a friend, for an enemy teaches you things, such as forbearance, that a friend generally does not.

The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.

This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, I guarantee you, if I stay here long enough, they'll get rid of me, too.

Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill.

There is real love just as there are real ghosts; every person speaks of it, few persons have seen it.

In this life, your so-called ordinary life, you must be rooted; and in your inner space, in the spiritual life, you must be weightless and flying and flowing, floating.

...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.

As long as the wrong people hold power, how can the right political climate even arise?