Those that fight don't listen, those that listen don't fight.

Lose your mind and come to your senses.

We live in a house of mirrors and think we are looking out the windows.

...nobody can stand truth if it is told to him. Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself because then, the pride of discovery makes the truth palatable.

Anxiety is the gap between now and later.

Awareness in itself is healing.

To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.

If you are bored, you are not paying attention.

Nothing changes until it becomes what it is.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

The person most in control is the person who can give up control.

You have to be excited about your life.

...as if prayers ever put out a fire.

My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing. To attempt what old Chinese painters called 'spirit resonance' in melody and sound.

I do believe that billionaires and multi-millionaires should be paying more in taxes.

It's really surprising that what you put on paper, people will believe.

Stars don't make movies. Movies make stars.

Gold opens all locks, no lock will hold against the power of gold.

I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words.

When I was growing up, there were no cell phones and no roads into the bush, and so if something happened to your plane, that was serious. Nobody was coming to rescue you.

You can only govern men by serving them.