I'm always so raw and unguarded. I'm always open to everything and everyone - or at least try - so I can be vulnerable and touched by everything at all times, which in turn is really inspiring.

Always now - just now - come into being. Always now - just now - give yourself to death. Practicing this is Zen practice.

We are born to die tomorrow, and yet through books we are able to know events of thousands of years.

Live and let live. You snooze, you lose. Make your life a dream and your dreams come to life.

I need to be creative, make art every day for my own sanity.

I have terrible panic attacks. I usually get so tired from crying and being in pain that my only way out is sleeping.

Always trust your instinct.

Telling stories, making them come alive is what makes me come alive. So I try to live a life where sharing this vital search of inspiration is a must.

From the first, in people and in things, there is no such thing as trash. These words point to the fundamental truth of Buddhism, a truth I could not as yet conceive in those days.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

Fear born of that stern matron Responsibility.

Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.

It was so rare to find someone who was both so young and so wise, both so fresh and so jaded.

Of course, there are days when you're not feeling your best and you still have to stand up there and it can be difficult. But those days pass and you move on.

I kept having chills. This was in the middle of the summer and I was wearing a sheepskin jacket and I was chilling. I was shaking all over.

From a public health point of view, still the overwhelming problem is that people are not treated enough for depression; depression remains under treated.

I never go online on my iPhone. Sometimes I'm tempted but I remind myself and the kids - it's a tool. Use it as a tool. You're not the tool. My iPhone, 85% of the time I'm writing down ideas.

I'm an athlete rep, so I'll be available if they need me for anything