I don't think you need to be in love to write. But you had to have been once.

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

I saw that.

The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

The most ordinary and mundane things, sometimes defines who you really are, but more importantly, where we come from

You don't always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

A healthy outside starts from the inside.

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

Passion requires focused direction, and that direction must come from three other areas: your purpose, your talents, and your needs.

I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.

In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.