Loving kindness practice helps us move out of the terrain of our default narratives if they tend to be based on fear or disconnection. We become authors of brand-new stories about love.

Smiling at someone can have significant health consequences.

Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others.

When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring.

Never feel ashamed of your longing for happiness.

Clinging to our ideas of perfection isolates us from life and is a barrier.

For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance.

The idea that traumatic residues—or unresolved stories—can be inherited is groundbreaking.

The unconscious mind is a vast repository of experiences and associations that sorts things out much faster than the slow-moving conscious mind.

Buddhism has a term for the happiness we feel at someone else’s success or good fortune. Sympathetic joy, as it is known, invites us to celebrate for others.

Even as we recognize our resentment, bitterness, or jealousy, we can also honor our own wish to be happy, to feel free.

Don't just create art to make money. Make money so you can create more art.

Leaders create a conducive environment for followers to accomplish their respective dreams. True leaders never fall for anything inferior!

He has a beauty to him that is not quite angelic, a quality that's both ethereal and dark. (Jonathan)

There are things in this life that you must face alone. Birth is one of them-death is another.

As the centuries unfold, millions of artists will live on the moon and paint the moon and Mars as we go out into the universe.

It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.

I eat very clean, healthy food at all times because I'm very focused about keeping myself in shape.

If you can draw the stone rightly, everything within reach of art is also within yours.

A technician is a man who understands everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and its place in the order of the universe.

If I knew where I was going to want to live the next five or 10 years I would buy a home and I'd finance it with a 30-year mortgage... It's a terrific deal.