Causing harm is never just a one-way street.

Smiling at someone can have significant health consequences.

Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others.

When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring.

Never feel ashamed of your longing for happiness.

Clinging to our ideas of perfection isolates us from life and is a barrier.

For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance.

The idea that traumatic residues—or unresolved stories—can be inherited is groundbreaking.

The unconscious mind is a vast repository of experiences and associations that sorts things out much faster than the slow-moving conscious mind.

Buddhism has a term for the happiness we feel at someone else’s success or good fortune. Sympathetic joy, as it is known, invites us to celebrate for others.

Even as we recognize our resentment, bitterness, or jealousy, we can also honor our own wish to be happy, to feel free.

We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.

John 1:5"Light shines into the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it

Moths and flames, mankind and death--there is little difference.

I'm a huge fan of Big L. He is my favorite rapper.

The word reality frightens me.

For 15 years, I've been playing the same character - which is myself - and I'm bored with 'myself'.

I come from a huge family. I am used to taking orders and being told what to do and not having an opinion, but I think that what I've gone through made me really sensitive to other people.

You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song.

I'm tall with broad shoulders. And my waist is small. I'm into fashion, so I like the way clothes lay on me. I'm pretty much a normal person's size, just stretched out.

Art at its greatest is fantastically deceitful and complex.