Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.

Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die.

I'm not saying we have power over everything in our lives - if that were true, my hair would look so, so different - but I am saying that there's no circumstance in which we are completely powerless.

My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.

Truth itself is something you live, not something you think.

When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread from finding you. But if you can avoid avoidance - if you can choose to embrace experiences out of passion, enthusiasm, and a readiness to feel whatever arises - then nothing, nothing in all this dangerous world, can keep you from being safe.

To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.