I am the brightest light beaming from the darkest depths. A dichotomy, i am . . . illumination.

They are called, "SELF-worth" and "SELF-esteem" for a reason... we can't let others decide what we are worth, that is so dangerous! Empower yourself!

People can have the best of intentions when they tell their loved ones how they should be living their lives. But often times, when we are in struggle, we are seeking to be supported, not solved.

From the tattered edges of an exhausted mind, inspiration blooms... mental filters disintegrate and walls crumble, as the ocean of creativity washes over everything.

Imagination is our inner-child and creativity, its playground.

Art gives those unexpressed parts of ourselves permission to be felt and spoken.

Sanity is transmuting all the insane parts of your brain into a creative outlet.

Art invites us to become explorers and excavators of our vast internal landscapes, discovering new terrain and digging deep into the past to unearth forgotten experiences and emotion.

My past takes no hostages, no prisoners. I've let go of yesterday and am free to receive the beautiful gift of the present.

I embrace my shadow self. Shadows give depth and dimension to my life. I believe in embracing my duality, in learning to let darkness and light, peacefully co-exist, as illumination.

Grace is darkness and light, peacefully co-existing, as illumination.

The image isn't reality. Even though we're used to thinking that way alot of the time. We show a kid a picture of a dog and say 'This is a doggie' - but it's not. It's just an image.

Here they have no time for the fine gracesof poetry, unless it freely growsin deep compulsion, like water in the well, woven into the texture of the soilin a strong pattern.

I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture, I do a picture.

People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television; they prefer books.

There are often some hundred times, a thousand times, before you can really see it for the first time.

I don't just want to focus on soccer, soccer, soccer.

Our breath is connected to the air that every being breathes. By breathing consciously, we acknowledge our communion with all of life.

The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.

If it weren't for rock'n'roll, I wouldn't be a designer

At some point in their life, everyone thinks they should go to law school. You may in fact think you want to go to law school now.