The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

Where Love Leads, Hatred Cannot Follow.

You look beautiful - David

Cerulean left. I wondered if she was from Flower Planet. Blue flowers were rare - one might take a name from that.

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

I wake up to start dreaming.

Tonight's show is about doubt. Or maybe it isn't - haven't made my mind up yet.

We don't have a unitary society anymore, you know; it's very fragmented. I look up and down my block in Silverlake and there is a different universe in every house.

The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one's own strength makes one modest.

When people pay to see you live, they connect with you on a much deeper level than people who just buy your records.

I don't want to have the threat of the sky falling on my head or some idiot pushing some button that sets off World War Three.