Health is relative. There is no such thing as an absolute state of health or sickness. Everyone's physical, mental, and emotional condition is a combination of both.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

Treat yourself at least as well as you treat other people.

Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.

Have you considered that if you don't make waves, nobody including yourself will know that you are alive?

There are a great many people in our society who are happy, but since they don't know they're happy, they're not happy.

Few people can fail to generate a self-healing process, when they become genuinely involved in healing others.

All of us are crazy in one or another way.

Television deprives children of their imaginations.

If you're focused, you can't get bored.

Sometimes our path is difficult... because the ending is worth it!

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.

Sometimes in films it's nice to have violins on either side, rather than on one side, so you've got more of a stereo picture with the violins. Sometimes it's good to have the basses in the middle.

All our efforts must tend towards light.

With dogs, you don't need gurus. Dogs are forever in the moment. They are always a tidal wave of feelings, and every feeling is some variant of love.

No one who likes a song lacks congeniality.

I have a husband and children, and it affects me deeply that somebody could be taken away in a second.

That's what I was gonna say. It seems like songwriters should express who they are through what they're doing rather than trying to go legit in that way.