The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free.

That humankind has fallen into the insanity of concensus trance, and lost touch with our true possibilities and functions is a tragedy.

Your imaginings can have as much power over you as your reality, or even more.

In the end we can never be given knowledge by others; we can only be stimulated. We must develop our own knowledge.

Don't go for happiness, go for truth!

If you don't have a goal, any road will do.

If you are just having unusual experiences and feeling special–especially if you feel better than everybody else–I think that is a dangerous thing.

Hope is the desire to bloom, but faith believes and visualizes the bloom.

One man's fantasy is another man's reality!

It’s just amazing how long this country has been going to hell without ever having got there.

In order to understand the impact you can have on another's life by listening you need to first be intimate with the experience of being heard.

I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.

I don't really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering machine and sing it, so I won't forget it.

Even if I could, I would not exahnge their virtues for my own. And that is why they are intent on learning from me.

I feel that the people I see in the media are sometimes more real than I am, which is utter bullshit.

I'm not a cinephile. My films don't reference films. I'm more interested in rhythm and feeling.

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.