"I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night."

"I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you - when life opens that door for you, I should say - I think it's important to be giving, to return the love back."

"When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga."

"To lead with integrity is to walk the narrow path where words and actions are one. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Ethics is not a doctrine written in marble, but a daily standard lived in conscience. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."

"Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature."

"It is a profound truth that a life without philosophical reflection is a vessel adrift on an uncharted sea."

"A life without philosophical reflection is a vessel adrift on an uncharted sea. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery."