True love for whatever you are doing is the answer to everything.

The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.

I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.

Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.

Because we never stop silently loving those who we once loved out loud

I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.

A great artist has to be ready to fail.

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

When you have so much pain, you think you will lose consciousness. If you say to yourself, ‘So what, lose consciousness,’ the pain goes away.

If we go for the easy way, then we never change.

Don't even ask me why. I do not know, I have no answer to this insane behaviour.

We, Brandy and Alfa and me, we've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.I have no native tongue.

As far as you can, get into the habit of asking yourself in relation to any action taken by another: "What is his point of reference here?" But begin with yourself: examine yourself first.

Acceptance” is the most beautiful word in the English language.

You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient.

Allow rather than resist what arises in the present moment-inside or out. Let it be interesting rather than good or bad.

I have often been told that I have many of the same mannerisms as Jack Benny and certainly Bob Cummings.

I don't think people have seen yet what I can really do. Only appetizers!

In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.

It’s ironic. At last I have my freedom. But at a price. Now my destiny is mine to choose. - Stanley aka Nine

The trouble with emergencies is," she said, "that I always put on my finest underwear and then nothing happens.