Practice is this life, and realization is this life, and this life is revealed right here and now.

Have good trust in yourself, not in the One that you think you should be, but in the One that you are.

Where you stand, where you are, that's what your life is right there, regardless of how painful it is or how enjoyable it is. That's what it is.

I am not devaluing thoughts. Just do not mix up what we think with what actually is.

Details are all there are.

Obviously she's the kind of woman who gives people the benefit of the doubt. I prefer to assume bad stuff first

It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar.

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.

I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.

Referendums are a democratic instrument, but so are decisions reached in a parliamentary democracy. I advise extreme caution when it comes to referendums. In Germany too.

God who gives the wound gives the salve.

I used to paint and I used to draw, and I probably would have loved to have been a portrait painter if I'd been good enough, but I really wasn't good enough.

I am not receiving orders from Ariel Sharon.

I'm a poster child for feminism whether I like it or not, but I was resistant to the part of me that was a woman.