God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.

Puerto Rico’s relationship with music is everything. It’s an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.

I’m not a natural born performer.

People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.

When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

Writing’s just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

Most of the time, I’m not even working; I’m just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don’t find any conflict among them.

I feel that I’ve done what I wanted to do, and that makes me feel fairly content.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‚darkness‘ on the walls of his cell.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

Sometimes, I think if you get away from what you’re called to do, it’s more of a distraction.

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can’t wait to do more.

To the people I forgot, you weren’t on my mind for some reason and you probably don’t deserve any thanks anyway.

I really have no interest in myself.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.

The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.

I tend to overthink things. I’m not the guy who screams ‚This is a world smash!‘ when I finish a song.

People say maybe we have a soul and chimpanzees don’t. I feel that it’s quite possible that if we have souls, chimpanzees have souls as well.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one.

To be in any way a positive contribution, that’s all anybody wants to be. It’s all I’ve ever wanted to be. I wanted to be an artist, be a mother. You want to feel that in your life you’ve been of use, in whatever way that comes out.

I am so busy doing nothing… that the idea of doing anything – which as you know, always leads to something – cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don’t know why this one is different, but it is. You don’t know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can’t stop thinking about it.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‚There’s nothing good in my future‘ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.