When we say no, or when we follow our dreams or true callings - people might be disappointed in our choices. Allowing people their disappointments sets us free.

Feeling better is temporary. Transformation is forever.

Your ego wants to move through life risk-free, foolish-free, discouragement-free, mistake-free, tired-free.

No amount of trying to inhale one more shred of inspiration is going to make it any easier to put your heart and soul out there.

Living Empty means we release the things that are no longer in alignment with who we are becoming. The release itself tells us who that is. The emptiness shows us the way.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world.

Life is full of disparate details arbitrarily joined together by dreams, pain and yearning. I do not long for sense, but I call for emotion and imagination amidst this chaos.

I suppose, like most young people nowadays, boredom is what you dread most in the world, and yet, I can assure you, there are worse things.

I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.

So if you are the big tree, we are the small axe. Ready to cut you down, to cut you down.

The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie.

A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented with his own insignificant person.

I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times.

I enjoyed doing Lipstick, but it scared me. I was very nervous. I couldn't wait for it to be over. It was very real, and I was just a kid.