Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.

It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.

I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.

We're growing up together, the human race. And we've discovered a lot of things that we didn't know. We're finding our way. Instead of thinking about doomsday all the time, think about how beautiful the world is. We're all together, and together we're getting wiser.

I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.

I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'

Some people say, "Sometimes I have violent thoughts, what can I do?" So I say, "Well, have them!" Cos we should not try to control ourselves. It's very bad to control ourselves in this sense. If you have any emotion at all, if its a bad emotion or good emotion, think about it, you should just understand that you have those emotions. And it's good because we are people and we have all these emotions. And the result of that is you would become more and more peaceful. If you don't let those emotions be inside of you then you become extremely violent.

People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.

I think people place limitations on each other and on ourselves. There is a great fear of expressing ourselves, of making creativity happen.

Some people are saying there's going to be a third World War. I hope not. I really think this is a time that people can start to mend things by negotiations, dealings. We know about dealings, don't we? We have brilliant lawyers. Why don't we have brilliant lawyers standing up and working for peace?

When I'm putting some communication out on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, I think that it's helping me, my brain, you know, because it's always somehow stimulated by people who are sending things to me. And it works both ways. It's great. My brain is very happy about it.

Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.

To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.

I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.

People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.

We tend to think being hard on ourselves will make us strong. But it is cherishing ourselves that gives us strength

Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.

I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling.

And [now] I think I’ll probably write a lot about birds. My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I’ve hung bird feeders … for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that.

No matter how sophisticated our lives may be we need to think of ourselves as creative children.

When I went in, my editor said, ‘I hope you don’t think you’re a writer.’ And I said, ‘I hope you don’t think I’m a journalist.’ And, uh, turned out we were both right.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite -- getting something down.The Artist's Way

We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide.

We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail...We are mute when it comes to naming accurately our own preferences, delights, gifts, talents. The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people's expectations. The tongue of the original self is the language of the heart.