Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest.

Dedicate each day to living relaxed and worry-free. Consciously open your heart to the flow of Creation and Creation's energy. By doing so you have the power to create each day, one day at a time.

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

Cotton candy is the most amazing form of caramelization ever invented by man.

The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.

I don't care what people say. My music's my music.

Perfect self-expression will never be labor, but of such absorbing interest that it will seem almost like play.

Say what you want about the deaf.

We were alive. I remember it that way. We were still alive, and we couldn't see how close we were to the end.

We have not been scuffling in this waste - howling wilderness for the right to be stupid. All this waste.

I believe that if Mohammed, Buddha, Jesus, and Moses all got together they would be best of friends because the spiritual basis of all religions is something that builds unity.