It is a huge danger to pretend that awful things do not happen. But you need enough hope to keep going. I am trying to make hope. Flowers grow out of darkness.

Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.

One of the things Jesus did was to step aside from the organized religion of his time because it had become corrupt and bogged down with rules. Rules became more important than feeding the hungry.

Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.

Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating - whether it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day.

Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.

Consider everything an experiment.

Creative ability is often mistakenly attributed to inborn talent. It is about all the ability to connect one thing with another.

Don't belittle yourself. Be BIG yourself.

Maybe not today, Maybe not tomorrow. But somewhere down the line, there has to be a light.

Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others but then they return with their richer lading at last so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.

people are not good to each other. perhaps if they were our deaths would not be so sad.

Having friends who are records nerds - that's the best thing you can do, have a record-geek friend to take you far.

I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.

How the hell can you play here?

Everything that is true is God's word, whoever may have said it.

I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema.

If the slogan for Google is 'Don't be evil', then the slogan for Uber is 'Do a little bit of evil & don't get caught.'

Thou call'st me dog before thou hadst a cause, But since I am a dog, beware my fangs.