I have never seen a person grow or change in a self - constructive meaningful way when motivated by guilt, shame, or self hate.

Man's conditioning has been so powerful that It has all but distroyed his ability to be self aware.

Perhaps the male has become an artist in the creation of many hidden ways of killing himself.

The struggle to learn to listen to and respect our own intuitive inner promptings is the greatest challenge of all.

You can't fly if you don't get the courage to grow your wings.

Dig deep and go where the pain and fear and joy are, and put it out there. The minute you shy away from pure honesty in your writing, you become a liar.

I couldn't live without the genius of Stephen Sondheim, be it not just West Side Story,but Follies,Company,Sweeney Todd,Passion.You can go on and on.

If increased meta-knowledge is not counter-balanced by a corresponding growth in consciousness then the likelihood of psycho-spiritual dysfunction is great.

Everything is perception. A hallucination is a perception of a certain reality. It is a perception of a certain state of mind.

To the lover of pure wildness Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

It's really hard in this day and age, with radio and MTV being so consolidated, to get new music out there. I think we've become a really legitimate, viable avenue for getting new music out there.

Any work that is really great hovers between terrific and terrible.

I want to thank all my teammates who scored so many runs and Joe DiMaggio, who ran down so many of my mistakes.

We grow despite the horror that we feed upon our own tomorrow. We grow.