When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.

When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.

There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.

Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.

The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.

What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.

It's funny how people can take up so much roomin your heartbut you still have plenty left for someone else

Stop making excuses of why you can’t or how hard it is and start making your life matter.

One word of caution—be careful how much you listen to the advice of others when in a deep pit of despair.

[C]apitalism--democracy's sidekick

There are some few instances in which it is virtuous to disobey.

When I wear a silk scarf I never feel so definitely like a woman, a beautiful woman

I guess I'm happy that I'm getting the attention. Otherwise, I'd just be playing in a local bar in front of my family members, and I'm sure they'd get sick of that in no time

The sage's Way is to act and not to contend.

There's a few tunes of mine that don't have jokes, but most of them have a joke and they have a humorous point of view somewhere.

If you always have to be watching yourself and judging, I don't think you're as free.