The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.

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.

Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.

The further you descend into a pit, the darker things appear. You can't keep digging to find the light.

Three-letter word that kills you for sure - Ego.

Knowing themselves to be faultless, they make it their mission to detect the myriad faults in others, against which they wage incessant tongue.

The organization will always mirror the behavior, habits, attitude, mindset and pace of the leader.

The (Academy Award) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons.

As artists we are here to make you uncomfortable with the complexity of your reality.

I've written and translated my own poems from English to German. It's basically a summation of my identity as it stands now.

from one thing, know ten thousand things

Without loving-kindness for ourselves, it is difficult, if not impossible, to genuinely feel it for others.