It was my mother who gave me my voice. She did this, I know now, by clearing a space where my words could fall, grow, then find their way to others.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

Be cheerful!

This is Buddhist meditation-to penetrate, to be one with, in order to really understand.

To choose the right is to reject the wrong.

It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.

Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

The one hit song that I have tremendous gratitude for is Boots, because it has a life of its own. It's like being identified with a brand name.

Education is cheap; experience is expensive.

Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life.