Beware of success. It can knock you into a fixed mindset.

… see failure not as a sign of stupidity but as a lack of experience and skill.(Seth Abrams)

Just because someone can do something with little or no training, it doesn’t mean that others can’t do it (and sometimes do it even better) with training.

Praising children's intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.

it was dawning on me how uphill a poet's path was, and I confessed to her that if I had to be the choice between being happy or being a poet, I'd choose to be happy.

The dream vocabulary shaves meanings finer and closer than do the world's daytime dictionaries.

beauty pertains with everyone. It's just the perception that defines the differences.

You cannot be who you are not. Simply rest, sit still and unknot. You may even try to emulate and inspire, But it's the inner self that you'll transpire.

We don't meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering.

The vast majority of women musicians function under singular names like 'Cher' 'Madonna'. They have to get married almost immediately to preserve their honour.

The more I abandon ideas of myself as a musician, the better a singer I become.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

I lied. I need your help." "Who are we killing?" "Do you have a pen?

Get up. Go to work. Play the game. Get showered. Go home.