Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward.

If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am.

You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.

I don't know how, or whether it is even possible to predict what the world will look like the next day. I simply have to close my eyes, and wait until tomorrow in order to find out.

At some point in your life, this statement will be true: tomorrow you will lose everything forever.

It's like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it to do.

I was headed for an entire life spent alone, pitying myself for not being more, ignoring all those people who actually ask me to be more, because they see it in me.

Enjoy the elastic present, which can accommodate as little or as much as you want to put in there. Stretch it out, live inside of it.

Desire is suffering. A simple equation, and a nice catchphrase. But flipped around, it is more troubling: suffering is desire.

Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life.

You can just sit in here, impervious and invisible. So invisible you might even forget yourself.

I am doing the servant job in order for you to become the owners of Heaven

If we continually let go of the moments, we let go of who we are and we lose ourselves.

We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - where it is written and where it is to be found.

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.

Greatness is in the preparation, not in the performance.

Music, to me, if it's good, it's good. That's all that matters.

I love the weather, I love my '63 droptop Impala, I love the 405, and I love my guys.

If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to know about their cosmos.

I'm a fiscal hawk. I vote against all taxes, but I do believe the environment, and climate change, is a bigger issue than fiscal deficits are as a risk to the nation.