To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.

Open to whatever you experience without fighting. Let it be present just as it is. Let go of the battle.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.

Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible.

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light.

In all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention… To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Art is a language which anneals individuals to each other through experiences that are uniquely human.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.