Optimism is an intellectual choice.

A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.

Nowadays you don't go around on the street kicking people, punching people - because if you do (makes gun shape with hand), well that's it - I don't care how good you are.

Probably some of the best things that have ever happened to you in life, happened because you said yes to something. Otherwise things just sort of stay the same.

We are all meaning-seeking, meaning creating creatures and when we experience the loss of meaning, we suffer.

High level womanness occurs and is freed when the filters and the boundaries in your womanness are no longer of use to you. As a woman you then move as your own Being.

True ahimsa lay in running into the mouth of himsa.

I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard.

When you're a very ambitious person, the things that are disappointing are when other people around you aren't as enthusiastic.

There can be no settlement of a great cause without discussion, and people will not discuss a cause until their attention is drawn to it.

I tend to hear rhythm and melody, chord-progressions, long before I hear words.