We give it up and just look directly with compassion and humor at who we are. Then loneliness is no threat and heartache, no punishment.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.

Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

Feel the feelings and drop the story.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.

When everyone failed to hear my screams, you are the only one who heard my silence.

Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.

Sometimes being an actor is like being some kind of detective where you're on the search for a secret that will unlock the character.

It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing.

Death is what happens when you die.

There is no story that is not true.

[ Chadwick Boseman] is a remarkable actor, and he's a remarkable person.

Music isn't just for professionals. We delegate all of our music and our dancing and our art to professionals. It's silly. We should be doing our own dancing and drawing.

The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was to reckon with seventeenth-century science... the chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.

Dance music is great, but it's not a time to be reflective or particularly wistful.