“We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.”

The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.

Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home.

when your field is architecture, you go visit the great cathedrals of the world. My field was relationships. I got married many times. I was practicing. I didn’t date much; I just would get married. I thought, why waste time?

In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.

A lot of people don’t know what they want or they want much less than they deserve.

All addictions have one thing in common – they numb you out to what is happening in the moment.

If your day is full of little mean, dark thoughts, is it any wonder you feel crabby? Maybe it’s because you let your mind run wild like a dog putting its nose into garbage everywhere.

Living with integrity means… behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values.

Passion is not a quality that is foreign to you. It is not a characteristic that some people are born with and some must do without. To be passionate is as natural to you as breathing, as natural as being alive. It is the source of who you are.

Your passion is your true power. The more you discover and express your passion for life, the more irresistible you will become to others.

I just want to get a Ph.D. in love.

Don’t be proud of what you know, and don’t be self-confident if you are learned. Be open to advice from the unlearned as well as from the learned. Art knows no limit, and the artists will never achieve perfection.

When I look for happiness, I lose it. When I stop looking, and surrender to where I am, I find it.

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

It is inherent in human consciousness to improve. So there is nothing unique about a people searching for and creating ways to make their life better – all civilizations throughout history have done this. What is unique about us in America is the accelerated rate at which we continually search for novelty and progress.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible – it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

The only problem was I needed to use my own group, and things didn’t happen until I did. It wasn’t a real country sound.

What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?

Young people want you to be real with them.

The concept of loyalty is a very strange concept. When loyalty is to be tested, the real answer is that may it never be.

If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.

Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

Real slow hits from the bong… Make me feel like Cheech, And I’m kickin’ it with Chong.

Most great entrepreneurs I know are nothing like the other kids. They’re almost like tangent lines – those lines that seem to go nowhere. Nothing connects them, until they get out in the real world. Then they connect just fine.