As long as something wants to arise, let it. As long as something wants to last, let it. As soon as something wants to pass, let it.

Suffering = Pain x Resistance

Compassion is to share the pain without sharing the suffering.

Ultimately, meditation can allow us to have happiness independent of conditions and that is one heck of an awesome claim

If you can't be disciplined, be clever.

Today’s enlightenment is tomorrows mistake

Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

...all people needed was time and then they could figure most things out of themselves.

I've always been more interested in the future than in the past.

A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.

There're rules to being the side chick. Rule number one: you're number two.

I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and in long sentences and even long paragraphs.

Sometimes I'm afraid that my daughter might think that I get my hair done for a living.

Normally when I'm writing, in the beginning I don't think of lyrics at all. I'm just improvising.

Don't look back until you've written an entire draft.