You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don’t think your way into becoming yourself.

I also believe that when people are going through difficult situations in life… it causes them to search a lot more. They search life and search their soul. When you’re searching, you’re suddenly a lot...

What no one really talks about, though, is the main reason many of us fail with our weight loss efforts: our minds won’t let us.

Stay with and pursue your dreams, and history will tell your stories in golden, glossy and embossed shining foils

Satnav will get us quickly and all-too-predictably from A to B, but the path of life is more interesting when we’re allowed to explore the side streets.

It’s daring to be curious about the unknown, to dream big dreams, to live outside prescribed boxes, to take risks, and above all, daring to investigate the way we live until we discover the deepest...

If you are not yourself people will look right through you and see the pale shadow of someone else

Your craft is comprehensive if it represents you.

Why is it that one of the best songs in the world has to be written by the BeeGees?”Benedict

Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.

People say you’re born innocent, but it’s not true. You inherit all kinds of things that you can do nothing about. You inherit your identity, your history, like a birthmark that you can’t wash off....

First find your crown and then wear it, then your crowd will come towards you with ovations

There is an illusion about America, a myth about America to which we are clinging which has nothing to do with the lives we lead and I don’t believe that anybody in this country who...

I don’t think everyone wants to create the great American novel, but we all have a dream of telling our stories-of realizing what we think, feel, and see before we die. Writing is a path...

My mother said to me, “If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general, if you become a monk you’ll end up as the pope.” Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

We are paint streaked runners,deafened by the cries of all the sad people. It’s a powerful sound that practically yanks the tears right out of you. Sometimes, you just can’t help but feel like a...

The answers to your problems lie all around you. The keys to your self-discovery are waiting to be found in each sunset, each pair of eyes, each breath of fresh air. Listen to the symphony...

She wasn’t tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

… because one day, maybe one day, if I learned how to write clear enough, sing loud enough, be strong enough, I could explain myself in a way that made sense and then maybe one...

If you walk 100 miles into the life you don’t want. Often, you must walk those same 100 miles to get out of that life. This is the answer to why the journey to fulfillment...

You don’t realize – the great thing about change is how quickly we get used to it. So I’m not complaining. the more things change,the more they don’t stay the same. Don’t let anyone tell...

As I watch Nicholas make his way back to his truck, I know one thing: this boy is going to make my life very interesting. I feel as if a fragment of the old me...

I am astounded at how long it takes to discover… for the first time,the things I have learned… over and over again all my life.

I am an artist. Any artist knows that their creations, their pieces must express an array of human emotion and experience. From the juvenile and innocent, to the erotic and the dangerous, and everything in...

It was like discovering that some part of you wasn’t yours at all. And it made me wonder what else I couldn’t claim.