There is power in forgiveness.
You have the duty and gift of living. You don’t have the right to sit on the sidelines–use your life and get back into the game.
Happiness isn’t a one-size-fits-all proposition. You must define what it looks like for you and then make a conscious effort to access whatever gets you to your unique definition of joy.
Effective negotiators have a style that those whom they are trying to influence, relate to and admire.
Its a choice. You just have to decide that I’m not going to put my energy there. I’m going to decide to let this go. It’s your choice. You can embrace it, you can become a prisoner of bitterness and resentment anger and victim city, or you can just say ‘I’m going to live my life and be happy’.
Every situation needs a hero. Step up and be that for your child.
Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don’t choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.
People living deeply have no fear of death.
I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within – in front of the sea.
Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
Life can’t be all that bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
Yet if today has no meaning, the past was a Blank and the future is a Chaos.
I’d never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I met was either a dolly-chick, or a sort of screwed-up intellectual chick. And of course, in the field I was in, I didn’t meet many intellectual people anyway. I always had this dream of meeting an artist, an artist girl who would be like me. And I thought it was a myth, but then I met Yoko and that was it.
But to do for the world more than the world does for you, that is Success.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there’s too much guilt.
In the 80s, when I was a little girl, this whole Midtown area was a different world. These are the streets that I walked, and learned my lessons on, and heard the music, and witnessed disenfranchised people, and people who just had dreams and hopes. Every pimp, every prostitute, every drug dealer, every Broadway dreamer wishing they could be a writer, or a musician, or an actor.
