Happy to me is not what I thought happy was. Happy is actually better, because it includes room for sadness. A definition of success must leave room for failure, because it's part of it.

I've discovered that every time I've reached a milestone I think I'm there, but there's another there waiting for me.

The biggest strength is being able to have perspective. Get the distance, and it enables you to be able to laugh at yourself.

I used to think that having lots of friends meant that you were happy. That's really not true. Having the right friends means that you're happy.

One of the best practices in the manual of human existence is to assist people who need help when you can safely do so. The best people help those who need help.

Let the blue of the sky and ocean take your blue away when you feel blue

Perfection all the time would drive them mad. For every perfect little town, there's something ugly underneath. No dream without the nightmare.

Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair rhapsodically described, women's faces acclaimed in odelike language.

We just wanted to make albums where every song stands out and is different. It must not be the same track from one to 12.

He who understands nature walks close with God.

The American Indians, the ancient Indians would say, the metaphysical ones would say: "Power binds us together." Power, for a while, makes us what we are, perceivers, luminous perceivers of reality.

France is a country that loves to change their government if it is always the same.

There is nothing so much like God in all the universe as silence.

If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.

We cannot let external criticism, even if it's true, fortify our internal foe. That foe is strong enough already.