Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life.

Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.

I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.

I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.

Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.

Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.

The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.

The real malady is fear of life, not of death

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.

The fastest surging woman leadership position is heading non-profit organizations. Women are not rejecting leadership positions -- they're rejecting politics.

It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.

We do a disservice to society if we ignore the evidence which shows that stable families tend to be associated with better outcomes for children.

All of spiritual practice is a matter of relationship: to ourselves, to others, to life's situations.

Interview with a Vampire' made vampires sexy.

Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?

Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of.

All I can do is take influences from where I was raised.

Where am I, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.