The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

For me, the safest place is out on a limb.

I do miss the stage. There's nothing like it, nothing. When I did my one-woman show and played the Palace and played the Gershwin and all that, I did - what? - eight shows or maybe more a week. Of course you can't do anything else, and you can't run quickly for a cab in the rain, and you can't have a drunken love affair. You can't do any of that. Because you've got to be perfectly healthy. And I guess I value enjoying my life a little bit more than the discipline these days.

There's no journey worth taking except the journey through one's self. That's the most important journey you take. I found that out as I went around the world many times: I was learning about me.

Usually I'm right, by the way - so never mind all the other.

One can become as intellectually arrogant about spirituality as about empirical science.

We've had so many lifetimes of different cultures and different religions and different points of view and different wars and different loves and different children.