No thought has any power. You have power. And when you identify and believe in the thought you give power to the thought.

Don't remind the world that it is sick and troubled. Remind it that it is beautiful and free.

At the end of the day, you can have something in your head, something in your hand, or something in your heart. What are you choosing?

All the ups and downs are grace in different wrappings, sent to refine consciousness. Say thanks to them all.

Who reminds you to breathe and to beat your heart? Something is there, taking care.

The greatest healing would be to wake up from what we are not.

You need nothing to be happy - you need something to be sad.

If you seek approval from others in this world, you will not know happiness.

If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. This mistrust is unfair. Life has given us so much, and yet we do not trust it.

If I could give you only one advice, I would say: Don't identify with anything. Be completely empty - no one. Be no-body and see if you lose anything but delusion.

When you live guided by intuition rather than thought, your life dances like writing on water, fresh and untraceable.

We all go through some tough times, but unfortunately, some of us let theirs define the rest of their lives instead of growing from them.

You can't solve your problems by using the same thinking that got you into those problems in the first place.

You don't need to like your protagonists.

Feathertail... No, don't leave me!

I worship scones and danishes. If I never had another meal, I wouldn't care as long as I could eat pastries and jelly doughnuts.

If you set something free and it comes back to you, that's the beginning of it being yours.

I have friends who are going through chemotherapy, and they make the darkest, most hideous cancer jokes you've ever heard.

I promise myself that I would go and do a play every year.

El Salvador has the scenery of northern California and the climate of southern California plus - and this was a relief - no Californians.

I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.