Archives - August 2011

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

I make the road. I draw the map. Nothing just happens to me...I'm the one happening.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.

I've been on a calendar, but never on time.

The secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If you're lucky, putting together your life is a process that will last through every single day you're alive.

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

We are always in the space in-between...all the spaces where you are not actually at home. You haven't arrived yet.... This is where our mind is the most open. We are alert, we are sensitive, and destiny can happen.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but...life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours over.

We shall by morning
Inherit the earth.
Our foot's in the door.

If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself --- and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to --- letting a person be what he really is.

Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

All the things I really like are either immoral, illegal or fattening.

We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.

I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.

If I only had three words of advice, they would be, Tell the Truth. If I got three more words, I'd add, all the time.

You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real...for a moment at least...that long magic moment before we wake.

There are times when friendship feels like running down a hill together as fast as you can, jumping over things, spinning around, and you don't care where you're going, and you don't care where you've come from, because all that matters is speed, and the hands holding your hands.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

You invite things to happen. You open the door. You inhale. And if you inhale the chaos, you give the chaos, the chaos gives back.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Let us not worry about the future. Let us only do the right thing today, at this moment, Here and now. Let the future take care of itself.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.