I wanted to impress people because I was kind of a kid who was lost in the crowd - was sort of my, feeling about childhood was being part of a big family.

Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.

The world is a strange and wonderful place.

Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.

Art is about paying attention.

History is an angel being blown backwards into the future

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.

People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.

I believe that the purpose of death is the release of love.

I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.

It's good to take a longer view and think, what would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever?

The way to achieve happiness is to have a high standard for yourself and a medium one for everyone else.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

If the United States wants access to Chinese, Indian or Vietnamese markets, we must get access to theirs. U.S. protectionism is very subtle but it is very much there.

There are a number of steps that we can take to reinvigorate and rebuild the economic and the physical infrastructure of our country and then to rebuild us, frankly, on a spiritual level.

A protected bicycle lane in the city in a developing country is a powerful symbol, showing that a citizen on the $30 bicycle is as important as one in a $30,000 car

Doing a show is very similar to what meditation is supposed to be: being there and being present in that space and time.

Loneliness is the teacher of giving.

I used to be so twig skinny that I couldn't eat enough, because I was just naturally skinny. Until I went to China.

I write to tell the truth about the black condition as I see it. Therefore, I write to offer a black woman's view of the world.

If we achieve satori and the satori shows, like a bit of dogshit stuck to the top of our nose, that is not so good.