I've never had high expectations of my work and I certainly am not going to let that plague my thoughts. I'm just going to continue to choose what feels right for me at the time and go with it.

Don't let anyone ever make you feel you don't deserve what you want.

Never give up on what makes you smile

I think the most common cause of insomnia is simple; its loneliness.

I believe that whatever doesn't kill you, simply makes you... stranger.

People generally express more in between their sentences when they're not speaking. Words are usually there to disguise who someone is or what they're feeling.

Nobody panics when things go “according to plan”. Even if the plan is horrifying!

If you make decisions based upon people's reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices.

If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow.

I like to set up obstacles and defeat them.

See I’m not a monster, I’m just ahead of the curve.

To conquer fear, you must become fear - you must bask in the fear of the BOOK... and men fear most what they cannot see- The Power of the Book is spiritual.

Some of my best friends are women, ' I snapped, 'though I certainly wouldn't want my daughter to marry one of them.

Finishing my thoughts aloud meant saying how my dad had passed, and I had failed. How I had smoked joints and lay in bed enabling my hopelessness. I’d been the ugly in my world.

In zazen, leave your front door and your back door open. Let thoughts come and go. Just don't serve them tea.

I believe there's only one autobiography you can do.

Don't ever discourage someone from trying to better their life and health

Noise is a buffer, more effective than cubicles or booth walls.

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me.

Power has for so long been a male construct that it distorted the shape of the first women who tried it on, only to find themselves in a sort of straitjacket.

The Impersonal God seen through the mists of sense is personal.