Your ability to form a strong intention, to concentrate, and to get and stay focused while feeling detached from concerns of daily life—relaxed, open-minded, and emotionally energized—are essential.

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.

Ocean is not supposed to be scared of the drops.

There are so many worlds and I have not yet conquered even one.

I like wet hair and sweatpants. I like sneakers and ponytails.

Man is a predatory animal, and this aspect of his nature is nowhere better suited by environment than in the world of politics.

Our knowledge, experience, and wisdom can assist us in gaining more from this life, which will correctly set up our next life.

I prefer to subscribe to that whole, “everything happens for a reason” theory, mostly because the alternative is too disturbing to think about.

Those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death!

You cannot hear the waterfall if you stand next to it. I paint my jungles in the desert.