To visualize is to see what is not there, what is not real - a dream. To visualize is, in fact, to make visual lies. Visual lies, however, have a way of coming true.

The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.

If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.

Our thoughts create our reality - where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.

It is a risk to love. What if it doesn't work out? Ah, but what if it does.

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.

When it comes time to teach, teach from your experience. Go out and do, learn from the doing, then teach from the knowing.

Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.

Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort.

You tap in to this oneness and become part of the universe as a whole.

No matter what the recipe, any baker can do wonders in the kitchen with some good ingredients and an upbeat attitude!

And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers.

Shakespeare has way too many lines. My ideal theatre piece is about 40 minutes long with no interval.

A southerner would fry a salad if he could figure out how.

When I got sponsored, it symbolized a major change and a major shift in skateboarding.

In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if all of us are real.

The artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos?

We must remember how to honor and respect life with each breath, step, word, and thought. What you bless blesses you in return. This is the power of reciprocity.

To me, music and fashion are the same thing. A good designer is the same as an incredible musician, and the two go hand in hand.