The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.

If you play music with passion and love and honesty, then it will nourish your soul, heal your wounds and make your life worth living. Music is its own reward.

Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.

A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice.

When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.

You have to be yourself. Stay true to who and what you are. And if people still like you, that's great! If they don't, that's their problem.

I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.

I don't think happiness is necessarily the reason we're here. I think we're here to learn and evolve, and the pursuit of knowledge is what alleviates the pain of being human.

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.

Let your soul be your pilot.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward.

Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?

I'm a really restless person; I'm tired of the way I sounded or looked yesterday. So it's hard to hang onto this image of me as this young Swedish female in this world.

To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed and never the oppressors.

Physical circumstances have very little to do with either our capacity to love or to attract love.

The promise to leave the European Union, end the supremacy of EU law and take back control of our democracy. With my leadership, it will be delivered.

Every expression of true beauty can be acknowledged as a path leading to an encounter with the Lord Jesus.

I was sent successively to schools in France, Italy and Bavaria, and this erratic education was a great help afterwards.

The most important thing in terms of your circle of competence is not how large the area of it is, but how well you've defined the perimeter.