I wore a $30 vintage wedding dress for my 8th birthday in an underground jazz club in Seattle. This was what I wanted.

Laziness in my biggest pet peeve of all time. Get up, make a plan, do the work, and love yourself, people!

I would just say that human beings are stronger together. Relying on someone else is not a sign of weakness it shows strength that you're able to accept that you need help.

I love my mom so much, and I always have, but I was definitely a monster to her a lot during my teen years.

I think it works differently for everyone. Some people do amazing things with research, but for me, it just gets convoluted, and I start to think too much.

I can't make eye contact when people sing 'Happy Birthday' to me.

Everything is just so much more romantic and real when it's yours and it's private.

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.

Observe and gradually you will come to see that all existence is occurring in empty awareness.

If we are not using our brains' capacity for challenge it feels to me as though it atrophies like an unused muscle.

No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself

Just watching Israel bombarding Palestine and Palestine sending one or two little rockets over to Israel - it's just too sad for words.

You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?

Let us live in the harness, striving mightily.

In China today, Bill Gates is Britney Spears. In America today, Britney Spears is Britney Spears-and that is our problem.

Writing was not my medium. I preferred to do video.