I welcome the opportunity (even if painful) that my minute to minute experience offers me to become aware of the addictions I must reprogram to be liberated from my robot-like emotional patterns.

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world.

You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it.

Love is just a feeling of togetherness and openness in your heart.

I am perceiving everyone, including myself, as an awakening being who is here to claim his or her birthright to the higher consciousness planes of unconditional love and oneness.

Life is warning you to get rid of an addiction every time you are emotionally uncomfortable in any way.

All there is in your life is the eternal now moment - and your experience of this moment is created by the programming in your head.

Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference.

You add to the suffering in the world when you take offense, just as much as you do when you give offense.

Everything is a gift of the universe -even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment.

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

I liked comedy, but didn't know it was something you could do for a living. I actually wanted to be an attorney.

...the spirit reveals itself to everyone with the same intensity and consistency, but only warriors are consistently attuned to such revelations.

I'm the kind of person that needs to think things through. But when I know what I want to do, I really know.

Writers are idiots with Underwoods.

The very odd thing about sagas ... is that they very rarely mention dry mouths and full bladders.

The principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible.

There's other things I'd like to do. I probably won't tour for a very, very long time. It's something that you feel inside and that's the way I've been looking at everything.

Truth was always but the daughter of time.

You make me proud to spell my name woman... you make me proud to be your friend.

My criticism hasn't necessarily been informed by the critics I've read. The conversations I've had with friends and fellow musicians have shaped my thinking more than the work of any critic.