So vast is that Being that there's enough room for every sensation to have its momentary play.

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

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

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.

It's not so easy... it's not possible.

Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life.

I've always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway.

The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.

If you watch my movie, you understand I am perverse and weird and angry and not looking to direct a film that ends with a bunch of teenagers exploding into glitter.

I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.

Single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints.

If you won't talk about yourself, at least compliment the audience. Just keep turning it back around, all right. Gush.