Full maturity ... is achieved by realizing that you have choices to make.

We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.

I care not that this moment’s lot was thin and sparsely dealt all pleasures sweet can be forgot the instant they are felt.

When someone loves you, a river of positive charges flow inside you to fill you with joy and bliss.

You are nothing but trouble.”

The realm of liberation is absolutely incommensurable with the relativities of higher and lower, better and worse, gain and loss, since these are all disadvantages of the ego.

For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone.

I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.

Hope animates the wise, and lures the presumptuous and indolent who repose inconsiderately on her promises.

I came from an extraordinarily dysfunctional family, full of abuse and alcoholism. And eventually everyone within the family had committed suicide.

Look at all these pigeons, think they can just trust us humans? You can't trust us humans!