When you realize that there's a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you've identified the problem, and now you can do something about it.

Every true artist is at war with the world.

Just the kind of girl I liked—the weirdo in the bunch.

When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.

When I looked into her eyes, I saw an invisible spirit of something that I already loved.

Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.

I had seen these transformations, people who had lost their will to live, coming back from their zombie states and radiating a new life force from their eyes.

Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.

My work was done, so it was time to start digging my grave again.

Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in.

I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.

Reality is what people who lack vision see.

When our sympathy leads to friendship and our friendship leads to love

There is no point in saying anything but the truth because, at the end of the day, you don't have to answer to anyone but yourself.

[Tea-masters] have given emphasis to our natural love of simplicity, and shown us the beauty of humility. In fact, through their teachings tea has entered the life of the people.

Hope is the last thing ever lost.

Sometimes I wonder if I met everyone in my life in the wrong order.

But most distinctly, I remember always saying to myself that when I get big, I'm not going to go to bed hungry, I'm not going to wear hand-me-down clothes.

A hug makes you feel good all day.

You will find the truth the way you have found your awareness, spontaneously. It's a living process.

Writing a manual forces you to place your thoughts and ideas down on paper.