When we surrender when we do not fight with life when it calls upon us we are lifted and the strength to do what needs to be done finds us.

The courage to go deeper is found by letting your desire grow larger than your fear.

It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living, I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.

What if the question is not why I am so infrequently the person I really want to be, but why do I so infrequently want to be the person I really am?

There is nowhere to go. What you are looking for is right here. Open the fist clenched in wanting and see what you already hold in your hand

We have been sold a lifestyle, when what our soul desired was life.

I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day, and if you can source your own life from its presence.

Not doing is not about immobility or giving up in despair. It is first and foremost about being able to be with, to accept fully, what is in this moment.

I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life’s betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!

It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive.

I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!”

My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me.

Most people are only doing the best that they know how to do.Blaming and holding grudges only brings more pain.

Find what you love and let it kill you. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.

It is a far greater happiness to obey no one than to rule the whole world.

I have faith the men and women of the Coast Guard will immediately rise to the challenge and see the people hit by Katrina through until the storm has truly calmed.

I think it turned out to be a pretty good movie [42]. I wouldn't lie to you.

Decoupage hit Mooreland pretty hard.

I ain't saying you're a liar, because that wouldn't be polite. But I'll tell you this, ma'am. If I loved liars, I'd hug you to death.

A lot of artists are such narcissists.

Go ahead, do something impossible.