Forgiveness is 'selective remembering'--a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go.

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

‎"Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.

Ego says, "Once everything falls into place, I'll feel peace". Spirit says, "Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place".

People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.

No one is any more or any less important than you are.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

We are not here to fix, change or belittle another person. We are here to support, forgive and heal one another.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

Happiness lies in a large measure of self-forgetfulness, either in work . . . or in the love of others. ♥

Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they signify - through things.

Ah Japhy you taught me the final lesson of them all, you can't fall off a mountain.

I don’t think of myself as being a celebrity, it’s too mortifying. I have a hard time watching myself on screen and it’s getting worse. I can’t tell whether my work is good or not.

I took some comp for non-comp major classes with Giacomo Bracali and Ludmila Ulela, who was a really famous composition teacher.

The best music you make is relevant to the culture you are in, the timeframe you are in. I want to keep it as relevant as possible.

All children are my children.

Occasionally people will look at me and do a double take and theyll look at me like theyre trying to think where they know me from.

Music before all else, and for that choose the irregular, which is vaguer and melts better into the air.

The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures.