There are no two words in the English language more harmful than good job.

All women are goddesses, and it's just a matter of letting that goddess-power shine - and if you don't try to be the biggest and baddest damn goddess you can be, you are selling yourself short.

When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler.

We meditate so we can see miracles unfolding. Without stillness life is a blur.

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

When the king gets depressed, he doesn't call for his wife. He doesn't call for the cook. He calls for the court jester.

I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out and spits out blood and all that stuff.

Whatever obstacles appear in your path, put your head down and get past them. Those obstacles aren't real. They're just God's way of testing you. He's asking you, 'Do you want to make it or not?'

Number one, like yourself. Number two, you have to eat healthy. And number three, you've got to squeeze your buns. That's my formula.

There is no better way to bring people together than with desserts.

Stop running to those who ignore you and start running to those who adore you.

I have dreamed of our bed as if it were a shore where we would be washed up, not this striped mattress we must cover with sheets. [from "After an Absence"]

You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.

A possibility thinker notices a problem just long enough to get excited about the solution.

I like my solitude, and I'm a strong-willed person; I'm a very hard-to-be-around person sometimes, I guess.

Activism has always been the driving force for change.

Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.

There is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich.

You have no beginning of time. It's always been there.

I don't ever try to make a serious social comment.

You must wait until the end, and at the end of the season you can say it was a good or a bad season.