Lovers find secret placesinside this violent worldwhere they make transactions with beauty.

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

We may know who we are or we may not. We may be Muslims, Jews or Christians but until our hearts become the mould for every heart we will see only our differences.

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.

There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.

No worthy goal should come easily, he told himself. Suffering created value.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

It's the sense of what family is at the dinner table. It was the joy of knowing mother was in the kitchen making our favorite dish. I wish more people would do this and recall the joy of life.

Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.

The older woman waiting for admittance looked at me, then over her shoulder at Patch, who was vanishing down the hall. “Honey,” she told me, “he looks slippery as soap.

Design isn't risky - change is. Good design mitigates that risk.

I try to dress a little casual before my photo-shoots. I can be comfortable before I go into my... transition.

I own motorized bar stools.

when General Eisenhower defined an intellectual as "a man who takes more words than is necessary to tell more than he knows", he was speaking not as a Republican but as an American.