...You know the mistrust of heights is the mistrust of self, you don't know whether you're going to jump.

She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.

The phoenix must burn to emerge.

I know it feels like you have all these options and when you make a decision, you lose a world of possibilities. But the reality is, until you make a decision, you have nothing at all.

Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky.

How right that the body changed over time, becoming a gallery of scars, a canvas of experience, a testament to life and one's capacity to endure it.

It's such a liability to love another person.

Find someone who will tremble for your touch, someone whose fingers are a poem.

Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.

Beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer.

Cultivation of positive emotions, including self-love and self-respect, strengthens our inner resources and opens us to a broader range of thoughts and actions.

Great masters merit emulation, not worship.

Fame is fleeting, honey. Fame is fleeting and it changes.

The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.

I never cared so much about making perfect sense. I wanted to make perfect nonsense.

Tolerance is a relatively weak virtue; we're called to so much more than that in the body of Christ.

Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around.

The more I have read the Bible and studied the life of Jesus, the more I have become convinced that Christianity spreads best not through force but through fascination.

Trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together.