I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop.

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

Values carry the message of shared purposes, standards and conceptions of what is worth living for and what is worth striving for.

I wish dogs understood: 'We're going in five minutes.

One who uses many periods is a philosopher many interrogations a student many exclamations a fanatic.

I have gratitude. I know myself better. I feel more capable than ever. And as far as the physicality of it, I feel better at 40 than I did at 25.

Never not dare to hang yourself. That's the only way you grow in your profession. You must continually attempt things that you think are beyond you, or you get into a complete rut.

The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.

It was like I existed in a kind of parallel universe, thinking thoughts and feelings that no one else understood.

I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world.

Don Jazzy and I have a past, I never dated Wizkid

And I was lucky enough to have teachers that really, really looked out for me and really encouraged all that. And in rural Louisiana, that was a rare thing back then.