In marriage, you must have trust and love

I am waiting for the day when I will see you again and hold your soft hands, touch your sweet lips and hug you tight so that you will never leave me again.

I am changing the notion that actresses can’t have happy marriages

I would rather risk failure than achieve it without risk.

In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions.

Spending longer thinking about the problem before you dive in is likely to lead to higher levels of creativity in the final product.

In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

Cease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life, and make it the full meaning of the present life.

Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading.

I'm not really picky. Just as long as it's not the harder style of rap - anything that's about being on the come-up or your wealth doesn't go that well with marimbas.

Being in Birmingham, I thought I was going to be a gangster or a bag-runner or a thief. I heard music and I was determined to get out of there.

I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories.