Some people have difficulty releasing control. It comes down to trust. When they trust themselves, as well as their partner, enough to relinquish their will, it can be emancipating.

Old or young, light or dark, full or frail, every woman has qualities that make her beautiful.

Strong women are the universe’s way of enhancing the strength of men.

I felt the smile grow from within, starting in my chest and making its way up to my face. If what the guru had said about auras and energy was accurate, I must have been glowing.

It is the nature of human beings to want, to desire.

One of the biggest lessons people on Earth have is the false belief that looks, money and power are requirements for love, when it’s the opposite.

That’s what happens when destiny unveils itself: you get a sense of knowing you’re exactly where you’re supposed to be, and with whom.

When the shadow is in front of you, all you see is the darkness and forget the sun is at your back.

Dark energy is the absence of love, just as black is the absence of color. The more love, the more colors added to the palette, the more light is achieved.

Life should be enjoyed, you know. That’s an important lesson to keep in mind. It will help bring him through the darkness and into the light.

Trust acquired through challenged skepticism is infinitely more solid and lasting than passive acceptance.

The fear of losing anything is the inability to prepare for the best.

Happiness can only bloom in the garden of peace.

Moving continuously forward doesn’t necessarily get us to where we want to be, just somewhere other than where we started.

Yes, I have a good sense of humor to sort of last a long time in show business, and I think to be able to find comedic value in who you are and the people that you work is always a good thing.

The only way you can hurt the body is not use it.

Life is too short to drink bad wine.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

It is within you that the divine lives.

Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room, playing the drums and the piano, composing music.

This was one of those special occasions when I could actually feel the inner appreciation of the beauty of the moment passing like an electric current through the brush in my hand.