Restriction generates yearning. You want what you cannot have.

When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.

There's a fine line between being private and being ashamed.

Just look at all the awards shows now. It has turned into a catwalk. You have to be wearing a certain designer, a certain dress, and everyone's critiquing.

Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word.

And I somehow always felt less lonely when I was completely alone.

Most important, in order to find real happiness, you must learn to love yourself for the totality of who you are and not just what you look like.

My sexuality is a part of me that I really like. But it's not the totality of me.

True nobility isn't about being better than anyone else; it's about being better than you used to be.

I married him for a green card. We had a really great, caring relationship; it just obviously wasn't right for me.

If you've looked at all the glamour magazines lately, all the covers are actresses. If they are on those covers, they are going to try to emulate models. That's just the way it is.

Might without right makes blight

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated

There are some conditions where you have to trust your intuition.

Even though ashrams... probably still exist in India, you don't find a child widow anymore.

Time sped. And the poet through sorrow Became like his suffering kind. Again he toiled over his poems To lighten the grief of his mind.

Why don't we bring everyone up to be caring and compassionate, to believe that we are connected with everyone and everything around us?

Never befuddle a solitary thrashing with a last annihilation.

The great men of the earth are but the marking-stones on the road of humanity; they are the priests of its religion.

There are still a few men who love desperately.

Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.