By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Single life is so overrated.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

I really concentrate on what’s on my plate at the moment and do the very best I can.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

I don’t see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way – artistically.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

Simplify, simplify.

All religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

I owe my solitude to other people.

I love money because I’ve earned it. I won sixty G’s with my first knockout – and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.

I’m never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

Only the shallow know themselves.

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

The thing that will never go away is that connection you make with a band or a song where you’re moved by the fact that it’s real people making music. You make that human connection with a song like ‚Let It Be‘ or ‚Long and Winding Road‘ or a song like ‚Bohemian Rhapsody‘ or ‚Roxanne,‘ any of those songs. They sound like people making music.

My life is my argument.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

I’m very secure about my talents and about who I am.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

In our home there was always prayer – aloud, proud and unapologetic.

I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.

I’ve lived a very colorful life, and I’ve said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I’ve never apologized for them – and I won’t.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

I just want to be myself.

If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

I don’t look at my old work. I mean, they made nice books; the books were made without me, the one from last year and the one from this year. I – personally, I’m not interested in my own past. I’m only interested in today – perhaps tomorrow.

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you’re aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It’s hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

Live-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . That’s an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can’t cheat real connection. It’s built up slowly. It’s about trust and time.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.