...approach change with an understanding of the process and an openness to the pain.

I know that if we allow ourselves into the gridlock of tribalism, we're in trouble.

If you're interested in the door to the heavens opening, start with the door to your own secret self.

What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.

Grief is an expression that you loved well.

When you feel yourself breaking down, may you break open instead.

One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.

Fear is a sneaky thief, stealing away precious moments of your life.

In the true spirit of the holidays, let the darkness of your moods lead you back up to the light, and when New Year's rolls around, your resolution will be tinged with new authenticity and power.

When we slow down, quiet the mind, and allow ourselves to feel hungry for something that we do not understand, we are dipping into the abundant well of spiritual longing.

I think that life is a friggin' magic carpet ride - it's amazing. Everything about life is mysterious and beautiful and touching and tragic and lovely and mystical.

Maturity comes with experience, not age.

The British government has urged its citizens to abstain from alcohol at least two days a week. Or to make it easier to remember, whenever they brush their teeth.

Leave my image alone... I will behave as I think I should and I will not change anything.

It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income, and when one has a reasonable private income one has better things to do than loving mankind.

You have to reach deep within yourself to see if you are willing to make the sacrifices.

I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.

Learn to speak what you feel, and act what you speak.

My whole life long I have done nothing but interpret my dreams of ultimate masculinity, and draw them.

You can be denounced from the heavens, and it only makes people interested.

You can feel the stars and the infinity of the sky since life, in spite of everything, is like a dream.