The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.

The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Writing starts with living.

It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling--it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt.

Everyone messes up in relationships and has peaks and valleys in their personal lives. When I realized it wasn't the end of the world and I would keep on standing, I knew it was going to be OK.

Every year in consulting is like three years in the corporate world because you have multiple clients, multiple issues - you grow so much.

Close your eyes, all you see is yours.

There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm.

When NASA dreams big America dreams big. People...kids say, 'I want to do that when I grow up'. Because you want to do what's visible to you.

Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.

In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science, because it was for the good of the Communist Party.

I have several portraits of Jigoro Kano and a bust too, a very beautiful one.