I've wondered why the famous congregate with each other. Perhaps it's to assure each other that they really are as important as they think they are.

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.

I have Tourettes syndrome.

The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.

There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives

such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour

The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we're walking.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

Because, " she said, "when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.

It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

Just because something is typed-whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book-this does not mean that it is true.

We have enough experiences in a day to make art for a decade.

To have everything is to possess nothing.

I didn't want the Ramones being told what to be doing, and I wanted the Ramones being presented in the right light - the remaining Ramones.

Take care with the end as you do with the beginning

Child of the pure unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet, and I and thou Are half a life asunder, Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy-tale.

First, meditation, and then out of meditation comes creativity of its own accord.