I believe that purpose is not only a destination but it is the energy that pushes us toward its fulfillment.

They say that knowledge is power. I believe that is only partially true. Knowledge is power only if your Wise Self interprets how it relates to you.

We know how to work hard. We know how to go for the goal. We know how to achieve, achieve, achieve but we don’t know how to enjoy the journey.

If we fast forward through the journey, like Adam Sandler in the movie, Click, we’ll look up one day and see that we missed our lives.

Certainly, it’s wise to ask for counsel in whatever you endeavor to do. There is safety in that. But when the asking comes from a place of dependence, it is unhealthy.

If there's going to be pain anyway, I'd rather it be the pain of growth rather than the pain of staying stuck.

Honoring your feelings awakens your soul. Feelings keep you awake. And it is from that awake place, that sound, that you build your life.

Dancing is about enjoying life. One of the hardest things for us to do is to dance.

Your humility is what secures your future and there is nothing like accountability partners who keep you real.

Men want to be known and loved for who they are by women.

I want to speak to the dream in your heart. That dream that has taken a backseat as you have strived to live up to something different.

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.

Books are the reality you get to choose

Love is the only effective counter to death.

I spend about a year between novels

I think in short order all of us need to act like we are citizens with not only rights, but also duties.

If you have attained something, this is the surest proof that you have gone astray. Therefore, not to have is to have, silence is thunder, ignorance is enlightenment.

Every time I talked about making a picture I didn't do it. I had already done it - talking about it! I quit talking.

Seattle is this curious liberal island.

Research the imagination. It was as obsolete as the appendix in most adults, except for those in whom, like the appendix, it became inflamed for no reason.

We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.