I know what the teaching is, but to realize the teaching in a life experience, the sh*t really is an opportunity to find out who we truly are. To really learn and to awaken to our potential.

I like waking up in the morning when I don't have to get up and think about the next thing, and I can just be present with the feeling of being alive, I guess.

Your experience is nutrition. You digest your experience and you grow from it.

I have a son, and I was married for twenty years, and I got divorced, and there's a new woman in my life, and my son is 18, and I'm interested to see how he's growing.

Waking up in the morning isn't a choice, you know.

My life hasn't been static - I spent a lot of time in Europe, a lot of time in India. So I traveled around a lot, and I kept moving.

What I like the best is when I can be still and not move.

We all have a dark side, and we have to confront our dark side. That's pop American psychology.

I'm very happy when I have time to just be.

For me, life has been interesting and entertaining, and I'm interested and curious about what's going to happen each day.

I'm here, and I know that it's finite; I know that I'm not going to always be here.

Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

Like a candle in the wind, never knowing who to cling to until the rain set it.

Your goal, in other words, should be to make your bosses smarter, your team more effective, and the whole company more competitive because of your energy, creativity, and insights.

Because you're only thinking they-might-not-like-me-they-might-not-like-me, and guess what? When you act like that, no one likes you.

When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something badly, and no one else can fix it for me.

She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.

During this time we've been apart, it's you I've thought of when I'm at my weakest, and you who have pulled me through.

Since I couldn't actuate the things that I wanted to do, the only weapon I had was to say no.

Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.