“When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.”

Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.

Write. Write until it stops hurting.

No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.

It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.

The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.

Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.

We are never trapped unless we choose to be.

When you possess light within, you see it externally.

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.

I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.

If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.

I don’t believe in putting in music as a band aid to get you over some rough parts or bad film making. If it’s there it’s got to add to it or take it to another level.

You must all, somewhere deep in your hearts, believe that you have a special beauty that is like no other and that is so valuable that you must not abandon it. Indeed, you must learn to cherish it.

I believe that rewards in life are deserved. Every reward is the fruit of discipline, of dedication and of sacrifices. And of stubbornness.

We must believe in dawns, even when we don’t see the sun.

Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.

We’re all a nation that believes we’re children of the same god.

I believe the tax on capital gains should be zero.

If I really believe all lives have equal value, and if I use contraceptives, which I do, and if I’m counselling my son and my two daughters to use them, how am I not serving the women who don’t have access to the contraceptives they need?