We have our brush and colors - paint Paradise and in we go.

As I watched the seagulls, I thought, That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.

The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.

My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars.

You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed.

I've learned .... That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

By far the most significant consequence of "selfish capitalism" (Thatch/Blatcherism) has been a startling increase in the incidence of mental illness in both children and adults since the 1970s.

Finding your bliss can make survival seem like. And a strange thing happens along the way when you love what you are doing: you become good at it.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

The States are nations.

I would say acting on stage is my first love.

The mystery is that whoever shows up when we dare to give has exactly what we need hidden in their trouble.

Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.

We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands.