What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.

But, like ivy, we grow where there is room for us.

Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.

That day I carried the dream around like a full glass of water, moving gracefully so I would not lose any of it.

I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.

Don't wait to be sure. Move, move, move.

We come from long lines of people destined never to meet.

... we had once called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone could respond.

Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.

I cried in English, I cried in french, I cried in all the languages, because tears are the same all around the world.

That's the artist's job, really: continually setting yourself free, and giving yourself new options and new ways of thinking about things.

Always be like a water. Float in the times of pain or dance like waves along the wind which touches its surface.

Be fully awake in the sacred moment.

Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.

Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides the job is taken.

Even if you're inches away from the finish, never take success for granted.

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

If one imagines unlovely things for another, they are going to produce them - not in the other, but in themselves.

What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.

Paintings are painted with paint, not with ideas.

You lit into me last night. You said what I did was stupid. - That's what my head said. But my heart... My stupid heart... Her voice broke. It was singing.