Every ripple on the ocean, every leaf on every tree, every sand dune in the desert, every power we never see.

I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.

If you play music with passion and love and honesty, then it will nourish your soul, heal your wounds and make your life worth living. Music is its own reward.

Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.

A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice.

When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.

You have to be yourself. Stay true to who and what you are. And if people still like you, that's great! If they don't, that's their problem.

I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.

I don't think happiness is necessarily the reason we're here. I think we're here to learn and evolve, and the pursuit of knowledge is what alleviates the pain of being human.

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.

Let your soul be your pilot.

Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.

When we choose to live a heart-centered life, we've chosen to live in the Light.

Maybe they seeded life on Earth millions of years ago, and now they're here to punish us for turning out to be such a lame species and inventing reality TV and shit?

Only criminals and madmen walk into Central Park after midnight...or, occasionally, an actor. (Dark City Lights)

I don't have much patience for anyone who denies that this challenge is real.

I always had an interest in space and the effect it had on you.

Certainly true worship invigorates, but to plan invigoration is not necessarily to order worship.

She went on because there was no going back.

If you're not going to offend somebody you don't need the First Amendment.

The central idea in The Black Swan is that: rare events cannot be estimated from empirical observation since they are rare.