The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship.

Passion begins where your bodies unite and ends where your souls dance. When your spirits can join together at the same time as your bodies become one, then all of you will be making love. There will be nothing left between you that is not love. This is sacred communion. This is ecstasy.

To succeed, you have to do something and be very bad at it for a while. You have to look bad before you can look really good.

A wise word is more rare than the green emerald, and one can find the word of wisdom even amongst the slave girls making grain.

I just want to get a Ph.D. in love.

I believe tears are holy, because they show us that the ice of our heart is melting.

Don't be proud of what you know, and don't be self-confident if you are learned. Be open to advice from the unlearned as well as from the learned. Art knows no limit, and the artists will never achieve perfection.