I think that one of the biggest flaws ofmankind is that we become complacent with our lives.

You don’t have to be happy to smile.

If we live our lives looking for the excitement and exhilaration that change can bring, we will be much happier than when we are eventually forced to accept it anyways.

I can’t think of anything more disheartening than living a life without a clear purpose.

An individual who has in his mind that he can accomplish a certain task is far more likely to succeed than the individual that has it in his mind that he will fail.

Our minds are incredibly powerful things.

Ever since I could read, I’ve wanted to write a book. I never thought I had anything to write about. Maybe you don’t think this is worth writing about. But this book isn’t for you. It’s for me.

If we will imagine the thing we want and do our part to “be in the right place at the right time, ” there isn’t anything we can’t do, be, or attain.

Too often, we put up with mediocrity, telling ourselves that later in life we’ll do what we want.

Life has too many disappointments to make room for negativity.

A life spent in fear is not much of a life at all.

When you can give up approval and appreciation seeking behaviors, then you will become true to yourself and the universe.

I don’t need to conform to your ideas of beauty

When I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon I cried

Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.

Like most artists, I live out of a suitcase.

Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.

Truth generally lies in the coordination of antagonistic opinions.

People react not very wisely sometimes.

Pieces and parts were always easier to process. The full picture, the entire story, was another thing entirely. But you just never knew. Sometimes, people could surprise you.

For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.