The body is held together by sound. The presence of disease indicates that some sounds have gone out of tune.

You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks.

Everything that happens to us is a reflection of who we are.

No matter what the situation, remind yourself "I have a choice."

Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

The love you feel in life is a reflection of the love you feel in yourself.

Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day

Treat every moment as a gift, that is why it is called the present.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself.

Compare yourself only with the word of God.

(memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation.

To be angry at the gods is to scream at the stars. Even if they hear, they will not stop shining.

We're having a good time. That's what I did last year. If you can't have a good time, you might as well stay home. I feel real good.

It will in the end, be admitted that everything, in effect is an image and that the least object which has no symbolic role assigned to it is capable of standing for absolutely anything.

I feel like all of my characters now take this congested situation, they clash, and from there you purge yourself.

I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.

Wide acceptance of an idea is not proof of its validity.

I didn't want make art about the internet at all. It's a really hard subject to take on and I did not set out to do that. But, it was real and it was what was happening.

You send a message in everything you do, Im always very conscious about what ideas and what energy I put out there.