I am two with nature.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

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.

My life is my message.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

I don’t think I get that upset over things.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

Listen, I think that people want a president who is going to be interested in the things that keep them up at night, the things that are weighing on them, the things that are debilitating and can be addressed.

Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn’t have that kind of personality, and it’s a terrifying thing to say.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

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.

I don’t know what ‚normal‘ means, anyway.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.

You can stroke people with words.

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I’m giving you myself in the music. There’s where the connection comes from; you can’t Twitter that.

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

What is a farm but a mute gospel?

The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

If I see a mountain, I just pick up and hike it.

Never take anything for granted.

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

I didn’t live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don’t know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.

Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.

Many readers fail to realize this, but ‚The Color Purple‘ is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one’s original God: the earth and nature.

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses.

The things that transfixed you as a child, that you found most exciting was not a passing fancy, but a message about what you’re supposed to do.

God has entrusted me with myself.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

I love to sit and eat quietly and enjoy each bite, aware of the presence of my community, aware of all the hard and loving work that has gone into my food.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

I think I have the nicest fans in the world, and I quite like being surrounded by people if we’re all feeling the same emotion in the same room.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

Everybody has a purpose.

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

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

My life is not to be somebody else’s impact – you know what I mean?

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.