You may tell the greatest lies and wear a brilliant disguise, but you can't escape the eyes of the one who sees right through you.

Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.

Blame and betrayal are the emotional enemies of improvement.

The least flower, with brimming cup, may stand and share its dew drop with another near.

Evil, be thou my good.

The media loves nothing more than when there is a racial scandal or something. Racism, bigotry, these are just such hot button issues, and the media loves it.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

For me, my yoga practice is like putting a one in front of a lot of zeros. Without my practice, everything quickly becomes chaotic.

It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

Remember the mind is your best muscle...BIG ARMS can move rocks, but BIG WORDS can move mountains... Ride the brain train for success.

I think being an artist and taking on those challenges is just how it is for me. Because I was always a foreigner, I was always the outsider.