“Maybe your path is completely different from what you imagined.”

It’s a challenge that we also feel more than any other time because it’s in the news and social media. It’s in our families.

I say to this generation: “We must encourage these kids.” Tell them they are wonderful and capable. Be their cheerleader.

There are those who need walks in nature or they feel depressed. Your linchpin is the pin that makes the wheel go. If you lose it, the wheel falls apart.

More than any previous time, people are drawn to meditation, to mindfulness, to yoga. These have become mainstream in the West because there is a hunger.

She helped me wake up to the fact that I had a source of creativity that was my true creative nature and when I embraced it and asked for this presence in my life.

In my own life, there were many things that didn’t happen for me in the outside world, but that gave me an opportunity to look inside to find my spirit, my courage, my confidence and ultimately, to find my heart.

Contemplating the immensity of our cosmos can make you feel very small and insignificant. But think about it.

There is division with people in our lives, as well as political division and religious division.

I felt as if the dam of the Niagra Falls had burst and all sorts of wonderful things started to happen when I found my voice.

How many times have you prayed or asked or said you needed help, when suddenly somebody showed up in your life? We are all connected through our thoughts.

We forget that our bodies are the most valuable, precious thing we have and take that miracle of life for granted.

Treat yourself as if you were someone inexpressibly dear to you.

I urge people to be a scientist about what they want and ask themselves why they want it so badly.

I am the openess you seek, I am your doorway. Come sit in the circular temple of my heart, & let yourself be calm.

Into your darkest corner, you are safe in my love, you are protected.

My greatest life lesson has been to not wait for the opportunities to come to me. I realize how important it is to be proactive and to create the opportunities myself.

There was a lot of playing going on, and the New Yorkers, of course, were a completely different crowd from what I’d known.

And let’s say in brief they live the Taliban style in Afghanistan, completely the same style.

Women want total freedom or rather – to call things by their names – total licence. If you allow them to achieve complete equality with men, do you think they will be easier to live with?

I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.

We older artists are competing with the new style of country, with their new modern style of gospel, with the young people.

There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.

When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.

There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion and if I hadn’t shown them I would never have arrived at this point in fashion, you see.