If you're going to answer the call and you're going to transform and you're going to change, get ready. It is not a day at the beach.

And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.

The appreciation of pleasure can be the anchor of humanity.

True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.

But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.

Nothing is so essential as dignity…Time will reveal who has it and who has it not.