“Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.”

My life is a stairway to heaven, not a ‘decline into decrepitude.

Eat only when you are hungry-not because it is one o’clock or seven o’clock or whatever.

Enjoyable does not necessarily mean easy.

I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so forth.

The more you treat yourself positively, the less you’ll want or need to be negative.

If you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would some day become communist. I, a socialist, think that we should strive toward a socialist society, all the way to communism.

I’m an assistant storyteller. It’s like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I’m waiting on six million people a week, if I’m lucky.

We’re not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.

When you know in your heart why you did something, and you feel and you know that in spite of all the controversy that it was right, doesn’t matter.

An exercise outfit helps because it sets this time apart from the rest of your day and makes it matter more.

You shouldn’t give up. For a while, you have to stay close to the wall and be careful who you spend time with and take care of yourself.

I was shocked into the realization that I myself had played an unwitting role as a movie star and sex symbol in perpetrating the stereotypes that affected women all over the world.

If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you’ve been broken.

You don’t learn from successes; you don’t learn from awards; you don’t learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that’s the truth.

I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.

I was in my mid-40s. I was a bulimic, and I realized if I continue with this addiction of mine, I will not be able to continue doing my life. The older you get the more damage it does; it takes longer to recover from a binge. And it was very hard.

I was born with music inside of me, and that was the first flower that bloomed on my tree, but I was the highest key in my school and also the lowest key, seen?

The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.

Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up & turn toward the light & that makes them beautiful.

I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers.

If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

From a withered tree, a flower blooms.