“When you possess light within, you see it externally.”

Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.

The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.

Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.

Write. Write until it stops hurting.

No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.

It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.

The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.

Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.

We are never trapped unless we choose to be.

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.

I think the Cowboys are one of only two teams in all of sports that engender love and hate to that extreme.

The Buddha’s insight into the middle way is not simply about a balance between extremes. This conventional understanding misses the deeper revelation of the middle way as being the very nature of unexcelled enlightenment.

I did an Extreme video, which was really weird having them here. I did “Get the Funk Out”.

Typically we don’t think of cities as being particularly extreme environments

Fast Food Nation is witness to the rigour and seriousness of the best American journalism, readable, reliable and extremely carefully done.

Perfect reason avoids all extremes.

Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.

Life’s beginnings, along with all the muted and explosive moments that surface between the two extremes.