“You cannot have heaven and hell together, you can have only one. It is your choice.”

If you love a person you will not interfere with his personal life. You would not dare to break the boundaries of his inner world.

The feminine is more powerful than the masculine, the soft is more powerful than the hard, the water is more powerful than the rock.

You are not here accidentally – you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you.

Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself.

No relationship can truly grow if you go on holding back.

Domination is a sort of hatred, anger, enmity.

Love the person, but give the person total freedom. Love the person, but from the very beginning make it clear that you are not selling your freedom.

When I say be creative I don’t mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.

The way of love is the way of no-expectation. Love exists only when there is a total acceptance and no desire to change anything.

Mind: A beautiful servant, a dangerous master.

Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don’t know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.

Wherever you are afraid, try to explore, and you will find death hiding somewhere behind. All fear is of death. Death is the only fear source.

What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos.

To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.

Without freedom you can never be happy.

When I say be creative I don’t mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.

It’s safer to do nothing and know why you doing it, than to do something and don’t know why you do it.

The choices of roles I made had to do with educating and entertaining. And as a result I found myself working only every two or three years.

I don’t condemn anyone for making their choices. If someone chooses those roles, fine. But not for me. When someone stops me and says, You’re the reason I became an actress, that lets me know I made the right decision.

If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.

I love producing, writing. I rarely write with other writers unless I have a real great respect for them. Like Burt Bacharach, or Carole Sager, or Stevie Wonder. Somebody like Smokey – like that. Otherwise, I choose to write alone.

I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.

I’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!

The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.