Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.

Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.

The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.

Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.

Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.

If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.

Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?

All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.

We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.

Consistency is the belt that fastens excellence in position. If you don't do it repeatedly, you'll not excel in it.

Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

Whether I'm interested [in something] or not, step one is read the script and figure out if a character is someone I'd want to explore or not.

It's dogged as does it.

I'm the git in the family.

I just write songs, I make music, and I have several times over reinvented my life in order to keep making music and just make music all day. I don't know. It's just what I have to do.

Once you've found something you know how to do, it makes you feel you don't have to be intimidated by someone.

To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.

For whoever conquers a free Town, and does not demolish it, commits a great Error, and may expect to be ruin 'd himself.

Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language