When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?

I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.

When you're constantly looking for things from other people, you're not looking within yourself.

My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.

Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

I really, really love Hilary Clinton. I think she's very cool. She's out there and she's involved.

That disturbs people when they know they didn't have the guts or integrity to stick to their dreams.

I don't believe in karma.

At no time do I come from a cynical point of view. I'm coming from a concerned point of view.

I've always been opposed to groups. I can't believe the doctrine of group is going to work for every single person within the group.

Daring a greater life is a divine act.

Craft the story now so you'll be proud to tell it later.

I do not think consciously of children [when writing] … I do know that children read me more intelligently than adults do.

I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.

Have a heart that never hardens

I think Canadians make a lot of music because we're stuck inside all the time.

I don't believe you outsource your convictions and principles to people.

Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude ... are mere productions of the brain. And fools consult interpreters in vain.

Our expertise is solar energy and we don't want to focus on other forms and we never push for solar form everywhere like say in upper hill areas where eco-hydro or biogas is more viable.