At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn’t exist except as a part of everything.

Jesus said, ‚The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.‘ I think if he lived nowadays, instead of ‚kingdom,‘ he would have said, ‚dimension.‘ And ‚heaven‘ refers to a sense of vastness or spaciousness.

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

I’m still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

I don’t want followers.

I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

I resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

Be not a slave of words.

Some people can just let things go, but I can’t, especially if there’s something that worries me or makes me sad.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

I think that I’m perfect.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

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

Money does not change people, people change.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

I think I had a mild case of Asperger’s as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.

I used to – my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8, 9, 10. I’ve always heard kind of melodies in my head.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

In retrospect, I can see I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!

I’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.