To change the world is not your mission. To change yourself is not your duty. To awaken to your true nature is your opportunity.

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.

Problems are solved from the inside out not the other way around.

Different versions of a true story

By the time he was done with the deer it had been dark three hours and his bad leg was singing 'Ave Maria'.

When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

If you're gonna lob something, lob love.

I try to keep myself as sane and as grounded as possible by surrounding myself with normal people, such as all the friends that I've had from when I was little.

If the press see you looking normal they can suddenly be 'oh, she's got a spot on her face, she's having a bad day'. That can be quite cruel.

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history

It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things.