If people take anything from my music it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.

We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.

The example of the raft shows dharmas should be treated as provisional as means to an end. The same holds good of emptiness too the negation of dharmas. This corollary has elsewhere been illustrated by the simile of medicine which can heal any ill

There was my name up in lights. I said 'God somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was in lights. And I sat there and said 'Remember you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.

We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.