The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or sweetness.

Once we get used to listening to our dreams, our whole body responds like a musical instrument.

At the very point of vulnerability is where the surrender takes place-that is where the god enters. The god comes through the wound.

But if you travel far enough, one day you will recognize yourself coming down to meet yourself. And you will say - yes.

An addiction is anything we do to avoid hearing the messages that body and soul are trying to send us.

This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never known.

It takes great courage to break with one's past history and stand alone.

Rage and bitterness do not foster femininity. They harden the heart and make the body sick.

To strive for perfection is to kill love because perfection does not recognize humanity.

The mystery of God touches us - or does not - in the smallest details: giving a strawberry, with love; receiving a touch, with love; sharing the snapdragon red of an autumn sunset, with love.

If we could allow the pace of our meetings to slow down to the pace of our hearts, we might find genuine understanding.

My mentors inspired and encourage to fulfill my highest potential.

As a rule of thumb, if the government wants you to know it, it probably isn't true.

True happiness is not related to external conditions but comes from the unconditioned.

I felt tight from the beginning of the match to the end. I couldn't relax.

Happiness today, I think, is for most people the satisfaction of the eternal suckling: to drink in more this, that, or the other.

When I paint, mysterious things happen. What starts with a void ends with a dialogue.

If it's a big hit, fantastic. If it's not, then it's not. I don't worry about my work

People still look at me as the champion and that's very important to me.

We read critics for the perceptions, for what they tell us that we didn't fully grasp when we saw the work. The judgments we can usually make for ourselves.

The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.