My spirit is healthy, yes. But I tell you, my flesh is healthy too. I am enlightened and free, but I am also lustful and carnal.

The day I understood everything, was the day I stopped trying to figure everything out. The day I knew peace was the day I let everything go.

In this world, it is too common for people to search for someone to lose themselves in. But I am already lost. I will look for someone to find myself in.

Before, I wanted to say: "I found love!" But now, I want to say: "I found a person. And he belongs to me and I belong to him.

For some people, “the point of no return” begins at the very moment their souls become aware of each others’ existence.

There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.

The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore.

I can't decide whether I'm a good girl wrapped up in a bad girl, or if I'm a bad girl wrapped up in a good girl. And that's how I know I'm a woman!

Don't think about making life better for other people who don't even deserve you, rather, focus on making your life the best, for yourself and those who love you.

In case you never get a second chance: don't be afraid!" "And what if you do get a second chance?" "You take it!

Cake is happiness! If you know the way of the cake, you know the way of happiness! If you have a cake in front of you, you should not look any further for joy!

My words are the kisses but many of the times they don't taste so good as the touch of your lips does to mine.

If you want things to change, you must change. If you want things to get better, you must get better.

I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's point of view.

I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.

Man maketh a death which Nature never made.

No one is guaranteed a job in this.

To use is necessary. And if you can't be used, then you're useless.

Martin Williams persistently gets at essences, and that is why he has contributed so much to the very small body of authentic jazz criticism.

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it's always in motion.