In mastering one thing, you have mastered all things because you have learned how to learn.

We are just too busy trying to appear smart to realize how intelligent we actually are.

I envision a world in which the vast majority of us are actively striving toward our potential by serving others through mediums we are most passionate.

When you give your weakness permission to be because you understand that it is simply an expression of your strength, it tends to no longer be a weakness.

Self-improvement is generally a removal of a vice rather than an acquisition of a virtue.

When your words enter the material world in the form of ink or on screen, you are immediately afforded the opportunity to judge their worth.

This is what it means to be mindful. To watch the thoughts as they come and go without judgment while completely accepting what arises in the present moment.

You are the space in which these thoughts arise, but not the thoughts themselves.

For many of us, especially being so fortunate to live in a first-world country, the vast majority of pain we experience is due to the seriousness with which we identify with our thoughts.

The rare opportunity to exist, no matter how brief, is worth the pain left in the wake of its disappearance.

Constantly re-evaluating your purpose is the best way to ensure that you are pursuing the goals of who you are and not who you used to be.

You can't help those who don't know they need help.

We have come to love darkness of religion more than seeking for the knowledge of God.

Silence has built walls, walls that I attempt to break by pedaling faster, only to be imprisoned a hundred feet down the road.

Death and madness are his only mistresses.

Never stay in a bad marriage, and don't hang around with psycho coke fiends.

Are you living just a little and calling that life?

Death, only, renders hope futile.

Since the design of the movement is paramount, shape, for me, should have no significance.

Without good drawing, the foundation of a painting will collapse.

Happy, not from anything that happens. Warm, not from fire or a hot bath. Light, I register zero on a scale.