Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.

The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.

Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before.

Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That’s why it’s good to be able to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.

All of life is a meditation, most of it unintentional.

Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Matthew 6:34

Search for the stranger inside you, forgotten even by your death.

For me, sleeping is a waste of time. I'm afraid to sleep. It's a form of death.

Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.

I identify with the regular person, because that is who I am.

I rejoice in the success of others, knowing that there is plenty for us all.

Being famous is wicked but its cool to be normal as well.

I was told by six doctors over six days that they could start me on full-body chemotherapy. And I said, "If you know where I'm coming from, I'd rather die."

L.A. is nothing but a bunch of driving, and I hate all that damn driving 'cause it interferes with my drinking.