Give your children big truths they will grow into rather than light explanations they will grow out of.

My journal has become a paper mirror, a topographic map to my mind. It is where I go to sort out confusion and decipher the invisible.

You don’t have to have had something to want it or need it but when you have something you liked… very much… and it is taken away, and you want it back, it can become a hunger.

If the only thing that matters is what is written on your heart seek those things that matter most.

If life gives you lemons, don't settle for simply making lemonade - make a glorious scene at a lemonade stand.

Mindfulness is the direct application of Buddhist teachings to a physical event, a way of doing or accomplishing something, or a way of thinking and viewing something.

I just want the pleasure of noticing these things at a safe distance.

Everything we run away from has power over us;everything we go through,we conquer.

I do not plan any painting, but begin with layers of textures and colors. As I layer the colors, something is suggested to me from within, and that is how it evolves.

We are all a mess of contradictions; some of our traits work for us, some against us.

We want full-scale normalisation of relations [with Japan].