We never had books in the house. Not any book in our house. Not a Bible, not anything. So, I would go the library from a very young age and get the books out.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways of freeing an inner voice.

I chose him. If I chose him, he had to be the right choice. I wouldn’t love him if it weren’t right.

I'm not the best singer, but I like the way I sing my songs.

I don't believe in hours and hours of meditation. The mind gets tired and starts to fold in on itself.

There is nothing more dangerous than security.

In confusing stock options with ownership, corporations confuse trappings with substance.

I started modeling when I was 13 or 14, I think. We were on the Métro in Paris on a family holiday, and somebody came up to me and asked me to be a model, and that's how it started.

I've always had this female-empowerment thing in the back of my mind - because I wanted my mother to be stronger, and she couldn't be. I thought, 'If I'm successful, I can change her life.'

True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices under conditions of uncertainty, not about assuming plans can remove risk.

The difference between a white man and an Indian is this- A white man wants to leave money to his children. An Indian wants to leave forests.