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.

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.

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.