There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us. But, they don’t create anything and they must never be allowed to stop the artist from creating.

I used to think of all the billions of people in the world, and of all those people, how was I going to meet the right ones The right ones to be my friends, the right one to be my husband. Now I just believe you meet the people you’re supposed to meet.

If you’re going to be a healer, it’s not enough to read books and learn allegorical stories. you need to get your feet wet, get some clinical experience under your belt.

Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don’t necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.

I just have this feeling if I take pi, well past all this static, take pi to 10 million, 20 million digits, that I’ll find something really incredible. Not just a pattern, not just an order, but a sign. A mathematical sign.

You’ve been listening to the adagio from Beethoven’s 7th Symphony. I think Ludwig pretty much summed up death in this one. You know, he had lost just about all his hearing when he wrote it, and I’ve often wondered if that didn’t help him tune into the final silence of the great beyond.

It’s just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we’re all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it’s like a kind of poetry.

There is one thing that all true spirituality has in common, whether that spirituality is derived from faith, from science, from nature or from the arts – a sense of wonder.

Despite everything I’ve achieved in my life, the culinary awards, the military commendations, the honorary degrees, I have never, ever lost sight of what’s truly important. The thing that gives meaning to these triumphs. Someone to share them with. A companion. A help mate. A wife.

The (lower) courts have ruled that prayers before government meetings that invoke religion are unconstitutional,