Creative ability is often mistakenly attributed to inborn talent. It is about all the ability to connect one thing with another.

Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.

One of the things Jesus did was to step aside from the organized religion of his time because it had become corrupt and bogged down with rules. Rules became more important than feeding the hungry.

Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.

Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating - whether it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day.

Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.

Consider everything an experiment.

It is a huge danger to pretend that awful things do not happen. But you need enough hope to keep going. I am trying to make hope. Flowers grow out of darkness.

Don't belittle yourself. Be BIG yourself.

Love is a gift. Passion is a curse

Even a wolf knows how to be polite when animalistic humans have no clue about politeness

I didn't fail the test. I just found 100 different ways to do it wrong.

Do not allow criticism to stop you from living your best.

Conscience is its own readiest accuser.

You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner.

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.

I have never stopped playing music.

If seeing that other person's pain brings up your fear or anger or confusion (which often happens), just start doing tonglen for yourself and all the other people who are stuck in the very same way.

It's a sad thing to watch your best friend turn into somebody you don't know anymore. Or even want to know.