...risk is one of the keys that move you from fear to freedom.

Being willing makes you able.

Where you begin doesn't matter. Your willingness to start is what counts.

If you value yourself, you understand that you are a gift to anyone you meet.

Let go of what you think life should be so you can experience the life you have.

Each moment is a moment of choice and your commitments keep you true to yourself, choice by choice.

You don't have to earn or deserve love. You are love. Loving is never about how others treat you. It is always about how you are treating yourself.

Purpose directs passion and passion ignites purpose.

Forgiveness ... is a willingness to get over what you think should have happened and an acceptance of the reality of what actually happened.

Investing and connecting are the key factors in turning any intention into reality.

Seeing people as innocent is the greatest gift you can give another human being: the gift of acceptance.

It is as bad to clip conscience as to clip coin; it is as bad to give a counterfeit statement as a counterfeit bill.

The latter estimate is certainly an extravagant exaggeration

I was doing that [a collaboration with Kurt Cobain] to try to save his life. The collaboration was me calling up as an excuse to reach out to this guy. He was in a really bad place.

Yet it seems that a final race struggle is unavoidable

If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.

I think that you have to let yourself be agitated and annoyed and not be fully comfortable.

In the end all we have...are stories and methods of finding and using those stories.

Id just love to have an audience and its the most fun in the world to get a new script every week and have the audience come in, and work with those actors.

One philosophically fascinating aspect of Catholicism is the very strange conception of reality it presents (the incarnation, the eucharist, judgement day etc.).