I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days].

I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days].

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

I started out with nothing. I still have most of it.

I started out with nothing. I still have most of it.

Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.

Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.

Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and read more

Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, read more

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.

The love received is the love that is saved.

The love received is the love that is saved.

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking read more

What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most of our being is at rest, unlived. In passion, the body and the spirit seek expression outside of self. Passion is all that is other from self. Sex is only interesting when it releases passion. The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead and that soon, come what may, we will be wholly so.