Caring less what everybody else thinks, but also caring less and less about what your own mind thinks, because what your own mind thinks, sometimes, is the thing that makes you sad.

Breathing is meditation; life is a meditation. You have to breathe in order to live, so breathing is how you get in touch with the sacred space of your heart.

If I know what's true in my heart and my soul, then what people say can't shape that.

If you don't like me, if you like me; both are equally cool. I send love and positive energy to all those people in their lives. I hope they find where they're meant to be.

I want to embrace my full self, as natural as I can be.

The only thing that really matters is spreading love and light and acceptance and unity throughout the entire world in any way that you possibly can.

There're no novels that I like to read so I write my own novels, and then I read them again, and it's the best thing.

Comparing yourself to somebody else is like comparing yourself to a bird.

Don’t be afraid to be yourself and don’t let anybody tell you that that’s wrong. Because the best thing is you.

If I had to change one thing about my life, it would probably be, I wouldn't be famous. Because when you're famous it's so hard.

The best piece of advice that I have ever received is from my mom. And she said, "Do you, boo boo." That is forever going to be the best advice.

I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.

I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.

When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.

No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.

I believe that in a good collaboration, the authors bring their strengths to the story; one author's strength cancels the other author's weakness, and back and forth it goes.

I just don't like being told what to do.

If you tell the same story five times, it's true.

I don't want to earn a living. I want to live.

That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species.

That's what I like about you, senator, you're kicking it old-school.