All stress is ultimately related to loss or the fear of loss.

The beauty of love is that in giving it away, you are left with more than you had before.

Awakening into love is a lifelong path.

The drug war is a holocaust in slow motion.

A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.

Every day, human beings are worth less. That's the triumph of capitalism. The money gets made, and the fewer people we need to make that money.

People from here will often say, "I'm not from the United States, I'm from New Orleans."

To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally.

Genuine inner freedom is the ultimate aim of life. It is the unspoken goal of every thought you have and every action you take.

Life is too short to carry the burden of a heavy heart. It does not serve you or anyone else. Free yourself through the power of forgiveness and compassion.

The best #‎ gift we can give in any interaction is to leave people feeling lighter, #‎ happier , and more at #‎ peace .

We are only as noble as our actions prove us to be.

I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.

An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.

I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good at it.

You've got to bend with the wind or you're broken.

I'm comfortable moving into the role of elder person.

When it comes to eating, you can sometimes help yourself more by helping yourself less.

The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.

The best writing deadlines are poverty and death.