The seeing is instant. The recognition can be instant but it will take some time to stabilize the mind into the heart completely.

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.

I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe, it's more segregated between those different disciplines, I think.

God doesn't; shoot crap with the universe.Your innermost thoughts are beliefs that unfold as your universe.

The purpose of life is to be happy.

My mother said, "Money is a great slave but a horrible master." It was her version of a French proverb.

Many of the projects that we do that appear quite successful, it's actually often the second or third time we've given it a try.

Here is a bold embrace of internationalism. Let's join the rest of the world and go metric.

When a dictator dies, oxygen increases in the world!

Keynes, far from being a wholehearted lover of freedom, viewed with some sympathy the fascist and Communist ‘experiments’ of the 1930s.

The world is a living image of God.

I think I've made a career out of making despicable people likable.