When we are able to look beyond appearances and to behold that which we truly are, we recognize that our essence is interwoven with the divine and that we exist as one of its expressions.

If we don’t honor our truth, how can we expect anyone else to do so?

Find the pitch and pace and syllables and words you love to hear. Delight your own senses, and self-romance.

Tread lightly on your partner’s heart. It was given to you for safekeeping.

When loneliness is a constant state of being, it harkens back to a childhood wherein neglect and abandonment were the landscape of life.

How can you get through to yourself?

Stand up for the underdog, the 'loser.' Sometimes having the strength to show loving support for unacknowledged others turns the tides of our own lives.

Superficial social niceties are far different from the deep emotion of thanksgiving.

There are marvelous sea creatures whose existences can be viewed only within the deep blue sea, and similarly we all have dear secrets that can be spoken only in the habitat of the heart.

Without consciousness there is no existence!

All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.

One of the things I love best about [my] 'Kind Diet' is that you will actually become part of the solution to our global problems.

I used my captors names every chance I had. It was intentional, a way of reminding them that I saw them, of pegging them, of making them see me in return.

No one single person is going to make each other happy, and it's foolish to expect the other person to do that.

All men owe honor to the poets - honor and awe; for they are dearest to the Muse who puts upon their lips the ways of life.

What's well begun is half done.

They say that extroverts are unhappier than introverts and have to compensate for this by constantly proving to themselves how happy and contented and at ease with life they are.

Guitar comes more out of its limitations for me, like putting it in a weird tuning and then just go places.

The definition of success is getting many of the things money can buy and all the things money can't buy.