How can you get through to yourself?

If we don’t honor our truth, how can we expect anyone else to do so?

Find the pitch and pace and syllables and words you love to hear. Delight your own senses, and self-romance.

Tread lightly on your partner’s heart. It was given to you for safekeeping.

When loneliness is a constant state of being, it harkens back to a childhood wherein neglect and abandonment were the landscape of life.

Stand up for the underdog, the 'loser.' Sometimes having the strength to show loving support for unacknowledged others turns the tides of our own lives.

Superficial social niceties are far different from the deep emotion of thanksgiving.

When we are able to look beyond appearances and to behold that which we truly are, we recognize that our essence is interwoven with the divine and that we exist as one of its expressions.

There are marvelous sea creatures whose existences can be viewed only within the deep blue sea, and similarly we all have dear secrets that can be spoken only in the habitat of the heart.

Enthusiasm is life.

I knew I wasn't that good a writer, and all I could remember was that I could draw. I'm better at drawing than I am at writing.

Ineluctable modality of the visible; at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read.

I think right now, the focus has got to be on how we hold [Donald] Trump accountable.

I say we need to repeal Obamacare as fast as we can.

The first animation thing I did was the first Transformers, the one that was animated many years ago. And I had heard that Orson Welles was doing a voice on it.

The inner speech, your thoughts, can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak.

Mind and body are not to be taken lightly. Their connection is intimate and mysterious, and better mapped by poets than pornographers.

I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul.