Whenever your well-being feels at risk around certain people, make a tactful and swift exit.

How you react emotionally is a choice in any situation

Spirituality isn't static. It's an evolving optimism that won't let hardship get the best of you.

Trust your intuition. It is the best friend you will ever have.

Remove the emotional and physical clutter from your life so you can soar.

Trying to force things only disturbs your goals. Forcing will not help. Everything happens in its right time.

Your soul mate can turn into your cell mate if the mutual desire for growth isn't there.

Sometimes violence cannot be stopped no matter what we do. But the more peaceful we are, the better chance we have of bringing out the peace in those around us.

Words ride on the energy of tone, its warmth or coldness; think of tone as the music of how words are expressed. You want this music to be soulful, whether you're giving sweet talk or tough love.

The relationship with yourself is the most important relationship you’ll ever have.

Surrender is a state of living in the flow, trusting what is, and being open to serendipity and surprises.

True sportsmanship is excellence in motion!

God sometimes allows problem to come into our lives to encourage us to make a step forward

Winning isn't everything, but losing isn't anything.

There seemed a gulf impassable between them.

All representations of a thing are inherently abstract.

I think leaving [death] can be as joyous as - probably more joyous than - being born, because being born is very physically uncomfortable for the baby.

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

Subtle astral colors... are hidden in everything around you. Could you but see, you would be amazed at their beauty.

It's an extreme to go from an artist like myself to a commercial artist with art directors looking over your shoulder, or any other knucklehead telling you what your art should look like.

Cram as much pleasure as you can into life, and rail against the pain that you have to suffer as a result.