Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don't lose your sense of perspective.

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.

Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.

After the rain, the sun will reappear. There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be here.

In the end, it doesn't really matter what you paint. It's all just a routine to connect yourself finally with other people.

The best motivating is self-motivating. The guy says, "I wish someone would come by and turn me on. "What if they don't show up? You've got to have a better plan for your life."

New York is nice, but I don't like it as much as I used to.

You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and what-all. If you write beautifully, you can write beautifully.

It is very difficult to stop feeling.

I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists.

There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones.

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.