You will not break loose until you realize that you yourself forge the chains that bind you.

Your future is being determined by you right now, depending on the choices you make.

Don't always expect good things to happen. Your job is to forgive no matter what happens.

You have to learn how to turn the tables on the ego. The only way to forgive what is within is to forgive what seems to be without.

Without forgiveness, metaphysics are useless.

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much.

Southern lawyers don't read novels much.

Seppuku is Japanese for ritual suicide. I thought, What a cute name for a coat.

Disapproving and boycotting is the Quranic thing to do, whereas violence and threats are not.

The essence of spiritual life is simply to use our free will properly.

The good life is best construed as a matrix that includes happiness, occasional sadness, a sense of purpose, playfulness, and psychological flexibility, as well autonomy, mastery, and belonging.

I'm a firm believer that education is the most efficient tool we have to make people aware and make our children aware, and to protect them from the scourge of the century, which is AIDS

After two and a half engagements, of course I want to get married and have babies, so I am going to freeze my eggs.

You've got my heart in unfamiliar territory. It's never been out here on my sleeve. But here tonight with you it's quite a different story. You bring out a side of me no one has ever seen.