Life's work is to wake up, to let the things that enter your life wake you up rather than put you to sleep.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.

Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

Feel the feelings and drop the story.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.

The acknowledgement of a single possibility can change everything.

Yo Mama’s so old, her memory is in black and white.

Opportunity may come to the patient, but always comes to the persistent.

I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

Compassion seems to be the greatest power.

We're Americans. We shape our own future. Let's start by standing up for President Barack Obama.

What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it.

The vices of youth now exceed my powers, but not my fancy.

Pressue is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing.

As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon and McCartney, of course. Class stuff. David Cousins was my favorite lyricist.