We don't always need to be sitting at the foot of the teacher, but from time to time we need someone who can overview us and give us direction.

The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.

Meditation is for you to realise that the deepest nature of your existence is beyond thoughts and emotions, that it is incredibly vast and interconnected with all other beings.

If we greet situations with a positive attitude, we will eventually create positive returns. If we respond with a negative attitude, negative things will eventually come our way.

In the very deep darkness of this world, little pinpoints of light show up very brightly and can shine a long way.

Our pure awareness is not male or female.

The first thing is to learn how to quiet the mind, relax the mind, and bring the awareness to the front so that we are conscious of what we're doing when we're doing it without all the commentary.

Develop confidence in your innate qualities and believe that these qualities will be brought to fruition.

The Buddha himself said, "I still use conceptual thinking, but I'm not formed by it." And that's the Buddha.

Even if one isn't a committed Buddhist, it just helps us become better human beings.

We have produced many of our problems through our confused mental states.

The scribbled signature black, onto the blinding global white, onto the thick soupy red.

In my teen years, I was hanging out with adults - Steven Meisel, Francois Nars, Oribe, Paul Cavaco. We had so much fun! We'd go out in New York.

I wear a lot of things for fun. Sometimes Ill wear one item that is deliberately stupid because that will make the outfit cool.

Sin will do a number on you.

If you are never alone you cannot know yourself. And if you do not know yourself, you will begin to fear the void.

Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.

Teachers learn from their students' discussions

Thought is prior to language and consists in the simultaneous presentation to the mind of two different images.

Boy, you better pray that I bleed real soon.

Next year [2017], we are going to hold a series of events there that we would like to call Russian Seasons [in Japan]. Over 40 different activities - and what is more, in different cities.