When the fire of your soul ignites the passion within your heart, don't view it as an opportunity for success or failure, view it as an open door for miracles.

It's funny how you can know a person, think of him as your closest friend, and still never gain access to the secret chambers in his heart.

Straight women love a feminine sensibility in a man, but that love only goes up to, and unfortunately does not quite pass, the fact of his being an actual woman.

Life is too short not to believe in something.

Nationalism is a form of cultural self-centeredness, and as a collective thought-form, can only exist because the dominant in-group is itself comprised of self-centered and narcissistic individuals.

Frankly I like the fact that I no longer fit the young beauty type-people take me more seriously now.

When people score films, the job is to be visual. When people make music, it's about evoking feeling. It's great when you get both feelings and being out of their head.

I don't like the way I look in a car. The lighting is very bad.

All you are is a bag of particles acting out the laws of physics. That to me is pretty clear.

I didn't choose to be an actress

The triumph of sugar over diabetes.

The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both.

When we aren't collectively imagining hopeful futures, then the way things are going almost invariably seems negative and frightening.