Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.

Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs

The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace

We cannot even let the other person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

Love is an inspiration. It moves you. It motivates you. It keeps you going.

Solitude is the biggest medicine for once peace, It makes your heart pure and calm.

I try to not be too hard on myself regarding my diet. I've always been a workout-to-eat kind of a girl.

We live in a world in which celebrity recognition, media access, and power translate very quickly into political power and indeed economic power.

Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.

A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation.

Give people a convincing reason and they will lay down their very lives.

Women have been burnt as witches simply because they were beautiful.

I'm against the capturing of Eastern Orthodox temples.

Well, I'm an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate humanity through my art.