Once a day you should look into the mirror to see if what stands between you and happiness isn't you.

Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution.

How much time could you spend staring out the ocean, even if it was the ocean you'd loved since you were a boy?

Anger is not a real feeling. Every time in my life I've ever been angry, it's because I was scared, or because I was sad and I didn't know it. Anger doesn't just come out of a vacuum.

I'm a big admirer of Walter Willett's work. I think he's done some really important research. He and I agree on most things.

I'm not running around the world looking for ways to create hostilities.

Your trouble is, you keep trying to unscrew the unscrutable.

For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.

When the creative spirit stirs, it animates a style of being: a lifetime filled with the desire to innovate, to explore new ways of doing things, to bring dreams to reality.

I couldn't get a job with CIA today. I am not qualified.

With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.

Personal style? I don't really believe in that. Whatever is comfortable.