We're social animals; we're meant to be together, but we were never necessarily meant to be together without being together. That was never the plan, I don't think.

One of Buddhism’s main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness.

Everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning back the clock. So the question in life becomes: What are you going to do while you're here

I'm not afraid of my femininity and I'm not afraid of my sexuality.

There are three words I like to repeat to myself: glass half full. Just to remind myself to be grateful for everything I have.

I must say that the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth. We're all built with illusions. And they break.

Men are much simpler mechanisms than women. Nothing changes them ...even when they have a midlife crisis, they do it in a mindless way... that's why I think we should let men go off and have affairs and drive fast cars and dream of being virile - and we should run the world.