When you get $1 billion of free advertising, it's hard not to have anybody buy the product.

It's in that convergence of spiritual people becoming active and active people becoming spiritual that the hope of humanity now rests.

If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built.

In a democracy, you won't always get to have your way. But you should always get to have your say.

If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius.

All humans have fear, and those of us who are fortunate have faith.

When it gets harder to love, love harder.

The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism.

Each and every one of us should stop playing small and license ourselves to become one of the giants of the new century. We will need champions by the truckload.

The usual pattern of demagogues is to promise the moon, fail to deliver, and then blame vulnerable others for those failures.

I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends.

Who dare tries is a success, and shall master the art of conquering dreams.

I believe our future depends powerfully on how well we understand this cosmos in which we float, like a mote of dust in the morning sky.

I was influenced growing up by everything from Harlequin romances to Fedor Dostoyevsky and Albert Camus, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and later Lydia Davis, Mary Gaitskill, bell hooks.

Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?

I can't wait until tomorrow 'cause I get better looking every day.

I have male fans, but I'm persuading them to become female!

There's so much you can achieve with a launching pad like stand-up comedy. You can literally go from acting to hosting to being a personality.

What matters the party to me? I shall find enough anyhow who unite with me without swearing allegiance to my flag.

All life is a nap. The more naps you take the better.

I can always sniff out when someone is being what they think I want them to be, which is the complete opposite. I really want a queen to be herself.