The great thing about gurus is not that they make you feel everybody's love. It's that they make you feel that you can love everybody.

Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history.

I make a hundred mistakes a day. I am, and have been, and will continue to be, wrong about almost everything.

If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.

This is not something that happens far away to people that we don't know. Global warming is something that happens to all of us, all at once.

If you truly love someone, you should be more interested in keeping them happy than in being right.

Social ascendency, innocently disguised as high fashion, good taste or prestigious expenditure, was the same the world over.

Honour to Agamemnon is a thing / That he can pick, pick up, put back, pick up again, / A somesuch you might find beneath your bed.

Happiness is right in front of you.

Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.

He who is or has been deeply hurt has a RIGHT to be sure he is LOVED.

What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?

I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.

It's fun to peek into other people's worlds and see how they go about doing things.

Your biography is not your destiny, your decisions are.