There isn't a theologian in the world who can argue with me on this. God has no gender. If that's the case, then everything needs to be rewritten now, right now.

My father instilled in me that if you don't see things happening the way you want them to, you get out there and make them happen.

The habits that took years to build, do not take a day to change.

The more people I meet, the farther out of my own little world I go, the more I see that we are all alike. And there isn't one of us who can afford to pick up the rock in the glass house.

Everything, everything, everything! I want to know everything. I want the privilege of being a crone.

Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards!

You can be fat and love yourself. You can be fat and have a great damn personality. You can be fat and sew your own clothes. But you can't be fat and healthy.

I had to dance topless for two years to make cash to pay my bills and save some money. But it was very enlightening, by the way. I'm talking about light from the gutter.

I know the guru route, I know you go sit on a mountain. But screw India. I ain't going there.

The more you achieve, the more interest it should spark to go further, because there's so much - and I don't mean monetarily and I don't mean in society. This whole experience of living is so rich!

Food = joy ... guilt ... anger ... pain ... nurturing ... friendship ... hatred ... the way you look and feel.... Food = everything you can imagine.

Real religion does not mean Gods - it does not mean Angels and Demons - it does not mean miracles of healing. Real religion is all about you and your fellow humans. There is nothing else.

Gratitude heals, cleanses and purifies.

You have to be selfish with who you are to stop wanting in your relationship with yourself.

Although it is still important to develop an HIV vaccine, we have significant tools already at our disposal that can make a major impact on the trajectory of this epidemic.

There is a web of life into which we are born, from which we can never fall.

Men who are proud of being black marry black women; women who are proud of being black marry black men.

With respect to the situation in Al-Faw, the British told big lies. In Al-Faw, our forces' positions remained in place.

The joy of the Gospel is for all people: no one can be excluded.

Work requires effort. Things we love to do feel effortless. Only do the things you love and you'll never have to work again.

Then he smiles as if he'd be happy to lie there and gaze at me forever.