It is perfectly acceptable to have a physical problem in our culture, but people tend to shy away from anything that has to do with the emotions.

There's nothing like a little physical pain to keep your mind off your emotional problems.

Acknowledging the important role of the emotions in health and illness, medicine must reexamine its concepts of disease causation.

Don’t let either hate or evil conquer you.

Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.

I date older men, and I date younger men. I have no rules about that.

A hero is someone who over and over does the right thing even though no one is there to witness it.

I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself.

Youve just got to go with what you have in your pants.

It's important for me to really play with the traditions and keep things simple and easy. Ultimately I believe in animal instincts - I think they often end up winning out.

You lack a foot to travel? Then journey into yourself - that leads to transformation of dust into pure gold.

Creativity requires quite a lot of faith - not just in yourself but also in the knowledge that you have the right to proceed, even when you may not know exactly what you're doing.