Understanding anyone begins with the person's family history and the culture he or she is a part of.

I lived in the city of light for 4 years 10 months, the generosity of sacred souls sustain my livelihood.

When we expand our thinking, we expand who we are as human beings: the perspective from which we view the world, and the concepts and values we use to guide our choices.

I know I am very beautiful.

That's so difficult, to try to deal with every hater. I don't expect people to like my music whatsoever. How I deal with it is, I don't give them fuel.

But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care.

That's what's wrong with the people in this world; they believe they can do well by just getting by when they need to aim for the highest.

It is ironic that Samuel Berger learned of this espionage in exactly the same month that Al Gore was attending his now famous fund-raiser with Buddhist nuns in Southern California.

An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic.

The gods are fugitive guests of literature.

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.