Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.

Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

Feel the feelings and drop the story.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.

Boys with a 'failure to launch' are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.

For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight virtue, and so used of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right

In Cuba and specifically in Havana there's a sort of energy that turns every situation into something unexpected.

Although knowledge of structure is helpful, real creativity comes from leaps of faith in which you jump to something illogical. But those leaps form the memorable moments in movies and plays.

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.

It takes nothing to encourage an artist.

We just started seeing a nutritionist who changes our diet every 10 days.

It's up to couples, to individuals, to have a trust between each other.

I blew my voice out and the doctor said, don't even talk for a week.

Being different is awesome! All of those who are different are more interesting than those who are clamoring for acceptance because they follow the path.