Authentic leadership is leadership that endures, because it exists as a function of the individual rather than a crowd of borrowed opinions.

Don't fight your thoughts. Allow them to come, but don’t cling to them. The small gaps between thoughts create the power in meditation.

Whenever you have a problem, take a few minutes to meditate. You’ll be amazed at the renewed clarity that you’ll bring to the issue.

Every hour, stop and ask: Am I really present in this moment? If not, what are my thoughts focused on? Doing this often will help you return to the present moment.

View every obstacle as an opportunity to grow.

Are your goals backed by burning desire or are you giving the Universe mixed signals?

When in doubt, check if your actions are aligned with your purpose.

Awareness is the starting point of every quest and the outcome of every journey.

What excites you? What do you do well? What can you do better? In short what does success mean to you?

Think of someone you care about and send loving thoughts in the present moment.

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.

I think if you spend much time dwelling on influence you can get self-conscious about every line you write. That's a great way to freeze up.

I haven't been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.

Everyone was so anti-wanting to be anything else. I guess a lot of bands say that but I think, for us, that notion - combined with our musical influences - ended up making us uncategorizable.

Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation.

Measure your life in love.

There's a big difference between feeling thankful and giving thanks. One response involves emotions, the other, your will. Trusting God has nothing to do with trustful feelings.

The sage acts by doing nothing.

Nobody supported me; my family thought I had gone crazy. They thought, you crazy gangster, you crazy drug addict, now you want to be a writer? That's it! They totally gave up on me after that.

Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.