New Agers have always told us that we create our own realities. Mind over matter.

The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness.

I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.

I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.

Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.

With each beat, the heart pumps nearly three ounces of blood into the arteries--seventy-five to ninety gallons an hour when the body is at rest.

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It's one of the things that makes me happy.

Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting.

Looking for the perfect day is not going to make us happy, because that day isn't going to come.

Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

When one becomes centered in love, then and only then will all paths become open to them

i'd rather not look for a job... to let a fine one find me. And that definitely wouldn't define me as a snob!

When I say, 'I don't care what white people think,' I mean that.

The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers.

Superficial religion consists of merely believing certain truths and doing certain things....such superficial religion is rampant in the world today.

I love any kind of candy.

I love the sound of breaking glass Especially when Im lonely I need the noises of destruction When theres nothing new.

Every day remind yourself of your own ability, of your good mind and affirm that you can make something really good out of your life.

To live in Wales is to be conscious at dusk of the spilled blood that went into the making of the wild sky