“It is much more beneficial to your health if you feel your way through life than think your way through life.”

To change the printout of the body, you must learn to rewrite the software of the mind.

We are who we are, and when you accept people instead of trying to change them to fit your needs, your relationships can fully blossom.

When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself.

In every failure lies the seeds of success.

Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities.

You are not creating a new you; you are releasing a hidden you. The process is one of self discovery. The hidden you that wants to emerge is in perfect balance.

The most satisfying project you will ever undertake-and a mark of a complete human being-is to discover how to build a sense of happiness that no one can take away from you.

Feel the world, instead of trying to understand the world.

Know that people are doing the best they can from their level of awareness. Accept people for who they are and always be ready to forgive.

People are doing the best that they can from their own level of consciousness.

First, say to yourself, ‘I’m totally independent of the good or bad opinions of others.’ Second: ‘I’m beneath no one.’ Third: ‘I’m fearless in the face of any and all challenges.’

The Higher Self is whispering to you softly in the silence between your thoughts.

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.

In my stillness I am the eternal possibility. In my movement I am the cosmos.

The ultimate goal of all goals is to be happy. If you want to be happy make someone else happy.

The three things you can offer your children to change them: attention, appreciation and affection.

There’s a freedom you begin to feel the closer you get to Austin, Texas.

One thing I love about Lady Gaga is I feel like her sound is always evolving and changing with her and her phases of life.

At two o’clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun. And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten, And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.

I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I’m enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.

I hate nothing more than feeling rushed to write a song or feeling like I have to write a song.

Home is, I suppose just a child’s idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

When you finally accept that it’s OK not to have answers and it’s OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.

I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.