My mouth was dry. Whispers carried on the wind as the maids around me bunched together in small groups, hysterical, morbid. I thought: who will clean the mess?

To conquer fear is the best way to gain your self-confidence.

If I spoke Italian, I'd be in Italy in a minute. I love the food, I love the way people live there. I mean, it really is my idea of paradise.

You're much too hung up on all of your ideas and your desires. You still have not penetrated the essence of yoga.

Sometimes you need an anchor, whatever it might be. You need a space to connect. So often you get into a way of doing things.

One generalization that is supported both by research and experience is that effective two-way communication is essential to proper functioning of the leader-follower relationship.

A gospel that in no way offends the sinner has not been understood.

I was raised on the purest comedy there is: 'I Love Lucy.' I was raised watching 'Three's Company' and sitcoms of the '70s and '80s.

We like to invent new disciplines or look at new problems, and invent bandwagons rather than jump on them.

The simple fact is, offense is taken, not given.

We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't believe.