For me, success to me is waking up and doing what you're doing every day, whatever that looks like to me.

Living in LA is like not having a date on Saturday night.

I have walked a stair of swords, I have worn a coat of scars. I have vowed with hollow words, I have lied my way to the stars -Songs of Sapphique

I'm glad I haven't married - I crave excitement.

Feathertail... No, don't leave me!

A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.

Okinawa, one of the longest-lived and healthiest populations in the world, practice a principle they call hara hachi bu: Eat until you are 80 percent full.

Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them.

To meditate is to be aware of what is going on - in our bodies, our feelings our minds, and in the world. When we settle into the present moment, we can see the beauties and wonders before our eyes.

Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.

If the people wanted my head I would bow without demur. If I had lost the confidence or respect of the people I would not want to live. The tragedy of the drama is that the very opposite is true.