We can't wait to be happy until we remove one hundred percent of suffering. That moment will never exist.

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.

There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.

The time has come to harness the blessed power within us and to use it to transcend from our current existence into a more empowered reality.

It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.

That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.

Il faut suivre ta boussole [You must follow your compass], as we say in French. Do what feels right to you, then figure out how to earn a living at the same time.

I'm fine with death. I've dealt out more than my share. It's the act of dyin' that bothers me.

To die before one fears to die may be a boon.

It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love-this hunger of the heart-as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world.

But why shouldn't I speak out? Don't you speak out in this country?

I'm kind of the long-hauler type of person. I also have a strong work ethic and gratitude for people that I work with.

I didn't like the '80s at all; it was a vulgar moment of fashion.