Experiences teaches us that to love is not to gaze at one another but to gaze together in the same direction.

Alone within the vast tribunal that is the stormy sky, the pilot is in contention for his mailbags with three elemental divinities: mountain, sea and storm.

Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows

Your strength is your ticket to persistence.Your mind is your ticket to brilliance.Your heart is your ticket to excellence.Your soul is your ticket to transcendence.

Wiggy & I were drug buddies. There is no tighter compact for friendship. There is no greater potential for deceit.

You know, Christianity has its own superstition anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.

Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one.

The elegance of staying with a moment, without needing to stop and change all the lighting, made [the alternative] seem lazy and indulgent.

Wind is the loving Wooer of waters; Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of man, Thou art like unto wind!

I value my health and my happiness. And I've realized exercise can give me both of those things.

It is good to be God, yeah. It's nice to get the recognition that I've been working so hard for.

Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.