If you have any question in your mind, don't do it. If you go in thinking it's going to fix something that's wrong, don't do it.

I don't regret anything. Everything happens for a reason-it's part of the healing process. Life is a healing process.

His Holiness [the Dalai Lama] has told me, urgently and repeatedly, that he thinks my photographs are crap. His exact words were, 'These photos are of poor quality. Why is there no sharp focus? There is no clarity!' I said, 'But your Holiness, it's Goyaesque.' And he said, 'No! It's out of focus!'

I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.

I meditate. Daily practice is essential to my life.

I had a friend in the neighborhood whose father had Playboy magazines, and we would go over and look at them. I remember cutting out pictures and hiding them in my room.

If you can see the terrorists as a relative who's dangerously sick and we have to give them medicine and the medicine is love and compassion. There's nothing better.