The quickest way to experiencing the peace inside, is to learn to recognize when I am not at peace.

I suffer because my interactions with others do not meet the expectations I did not know I had.

The gift of willingness is the only thing that stands between the quiet desperation of a disingenuous life and the actualization of unexpressed potential.

You’re a princess. And princesses are never nervous. Princesses are brave and pretty and fearless.

When did we all become fluent in this language that none of us wanted to learn?

We all die, it's a fact that today you aren't here, yesterday you weren't here doesn't mean that tomorrow you won't be here!

The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.

The reason one enters into lower mental states is because you don't have the power or chi flowing through you.

Those who play with fire should expect to be consumed by it.

In the '50s Morris Louis and I were not known, David Smith and Helen Frankenthaler were not much known.

I am convinced, the longer I live, that life & its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed, are [as] when we are suffering greatly, we are inclined to suppose.

My greatest wish is that a certain way of looking at the world, a way I show in all of my books, gets into my readers' heads, and slowly alters their perception.

I think for technology and innovation we have to ignore politics.