Love and kindness are never wasted.

I just want to get a Ph.D. in love.

When I look for happiness, I lose it. When I stop looking, and surrender to where I am, I find it.

That experience showed me that I-from moment to moment-am the only person in control of my connection to God. It's not that God is deciding to connect with me, depending on whether I had a good day, or did good or bad deeds. It's all up to me. God, the awareness of God, the love of God, the blessings of God-that lively ecstasy-is always there. It's me who separates from God by judging, by indulging in negativity, by criticizing myself, as well as others.

Don't be proud of what you know, and don't be self-confident if you are learned. Be open to advice from the unlearned as well as from the learned. Art knows no limit, and the artists will never achieve perfection.

I invite people to examine their lives without negativity, knowing that it's scary, but that not doing it is even scarier.

They're basically moments in which you're in touch with the meaning of life, when your relationship to the rest of the universe makes sense.