From the outside, my life may look chaotic, but inside I feel like some kind of monk licking an ice cream cone while straddling a runaway horse.

Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

We are so blinkered by progress, so preoccupied with where we want to go and how fast we can travel, that many of us have lost the ability to simply ‘stop’.

Though lovers be lost love shall not.

No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred.

Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Everything I do as a mother builds on a foundation of love and compassion.

And I think that's important, to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.

I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that.

To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.

Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to people.