Doing work you love is the dizzying path of saying yes to yourself and yes to a brilliant, hidden self you do not yet know.

You could wait for the world to invite you to the banquet and the ball. Or you could just show up in your red dress and your headdress ready to boogie.

If everyone is speaking caterpillar, don’t be afraid to speak butterfly. When it’s time to awaken, nothing else will suit you.

Your talents are worth your devotion. Stop saying you don't have time or it might not make money. Your talents are another form of oxygen you need to breathe in this lifetime.

WIth both trepidation and relief, I abandoned pragmatism in favor of magnetism.

You can't force yourself to say "yes" to a bigger life. You will do it in your way. You will do it when smallness hurts too much.

You belong in the life of your dreams. And you don't belong anywhere else.

Just start dancing and the band will find you.

You are meant to succeed in the work you love. Your desire will take you all the way.

There is no higher qualification than genuine inspiration.

It doesn't matter how you begin. Just jump in. Get moving.

It’s not reality that makes people happy

Dreams, after all, are insubstantial things, like mist itself.

There is a humility about genuine love that is rather horrible in some ways.

The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.

Create the world you want, and fill it with the opportunities that matter to you.

I haven't heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe I'm listening at the wrong times. But not one single piece of music.

Lost is a mystery show, so I think that would be stripping the franchise of sort of its essential nature.

Everybody lives in this world, except lovers! They live in an isolated small place called 'You and I' planet!

When I enter the studio, I leave my body at the door the way the Moslems leave their shoes when they enter the mosque, and I only allow my spirit to go in there and paint.

I assumed the amount wouldn't be detectable. I also didn't feel that I had done anything wrong.