Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.

I believe that we are here to contribute love to the planet - each of us in our own way

Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way.

If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.

Compliments are the helium that fills everyone's balloon; they elevate the person receiving them so he or she can fly over life's troubles and land safely on the other side.

One's attitude towards oneself is the single most important factor in healing and staying well.

You can't control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.

Love is giving with no expectations...Love cures, heals, and rewards two people: the lover and the beloved.

Love releases incredible energy that promotes the biochemistry of healing.

Your body loves you, but if you do not love your life, it will end it far sooner, thinking it is doing you a favor.

One cannot get through life without pain...What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.

Ads featuring real women and real beauty are such a necessary component to offset the potentially dangerous programming out there for little girls.

I think it was [Jean-Luc] Godard who said that life is nothing but a bad copy of film, but then our ambition must be to make better films and better shapes of forms that are given in life.

We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.

I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made.

There is so much else in the world that is more interesting [ than monarchy].

The big problem in the world is when people are forced to be in a totally foreign context.

To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business.

I take almost no notes when I write. I have one notebook - this old green leather notebook that my dad gave me a decade ago.

As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can find immeasurable joy in the birth of a child, a great work of art, or falling in love.

Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.