We must be present enough and receptive enough to “hear” with our whole being beyond just the words that are being spoken.

Failure is a natural part of learning and developing, and it teaches us to be resolute and steadfast in our endeavors.

Letting go of the security of what is commonly understood requires a big leap of faith and a willingness to fall.

Our differences need not divide us because even as we are unique and individual, we are also all one.

There’s no better way to serve and nourish the magnificence in another person than to simply listen to them openheartedly and without judgment.

It is only through dialogue, deep listening, and passionate disagreement that we find our way to something larger than a singular and isolated point of view.

I love to talk to flowers. They are sensitive. And sometimes I just want to have couple of wings and fly away... Will you ever notice?

If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much.But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.

There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.

The blues to me is like being very sad, very sick, going to church, being very happy ... it's sort of a mixed up thing. You just have to feel it.

Every episode of 'True Blood' is like shooting a low budget feature.

For a wrongdoer to be undetected is difficult; and for him to have confidence that his concealment will continue is impossible.

I never turned down a movie because they wouldn't give me enough money.

To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.

People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'

All I'm really concerned with is doing my thing.