Alexandra Stoddard

You can't be a resource for others unless you nourish yourself.

My mantra is: Let there be happiness in my soul, and let me share it with the world.

I get all dressed up in fuchsia, looking like a clown, and show pretty pictures to people.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.