We are all walking a thin line between the sacred and the ordinary. The two are never far from each other, and sometimes they are the same

Love and honor the world around you, and you experience life in its fullest. There is no “Other.” There is simply us. The all of us, the whole of us. The mankind of us. Anything else is a lie.

The courage to live in the present, between time and timelessness. No matter the circumstance, it is where life is found.

a man cannot hate unless he hates himself. Likewise one can only love another if they love themselves.

What your father never understood, is that what he loved most about her was her unbridled love and freedom to live her own life. He loved her colors and viewed her like paint.

You will not know love if you do not know suffering, and you will never suffer if you have never loved.

Everything does not happen for a reason. Believing this does not ease the pain for anyone. It hides it.

Don't worry about the past and don't try to figure out the future

The irony of the human condition is that it is the narrow gate to life. Few find it because they are too fearful to look

There is no end to what we can learn. The book out thereTells us as much, and was never written with us in mind.

What we desire, more than a season or weather, is the comfortOf being strangers, at least to ourselves.

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.

Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before.

I am often thanked by people for inventing the term traditionally built. The people who give me thanks for this are often traditionally built themselves.

A dog – a collie – went up to Eric, looked up at his face, and growled. “Shoo,” Eric said, making an imperious gesture with his hand.

We are spectacular splendid manifestations of life. We have language. We have affection. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.

Genius may be for an hour or a thousand years; its indispensable quality is continuity with the life-push.

The only reason I started using samples was because people talked about me not sounding like Kanye or The Heatmakers.

I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery.

We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.