As a woman, you don't have really much freedom of choice in the Middle East - very often, by the time they are 13 or 14, girls get married.

My father's biggest achievement with us as children was that he taught us that everyone is human and equal, even your enemy has the same needs and wants that you do: understanding, love, inclusion.

There's a deformity in the information that the public in the United Statesis receiving. It's contained in kind of a bubble and one day this bubble will explode.

The best artists transcend nationality and identity.

You can come from China, Russia, any place, and you can be a New Yorker. You can say what you want to say here, really express yourself.

My whole childhood was about being in the garden. It wasn't really a religious place to me. The love I felt there... was in contradiction with what I saw in the streets. It was a different world.

Intuition is already in contact with Existence. Intuition is already in contact with that, which is larger than ourselves.

it can't be wrong, if it feels so wrong

That's not precisely what I had in mind." Jamie, I had found out by accident a few days previously, had never mastered the art of winking one eye. Instead, he blinked solemnly, like a large red owl.

Humor is the balance of the tonal. Within the tonal you've got reason and humor. The two balance each other so that the tonal can accept and understand the journeys into the nagual.

I don't want people to know what is true all the time and that's what keeps the mystery.

The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.

Haiti, like any place, has its security problems; it has a great challenge in terms of establishing a kind of globally acceptable rule of law.

What you want most out of life is the thing you have to give the most of

When liberty becomes license, some form of one-man power is not far distant.

A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season.