A diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up.

The river that flows in you also flows in me.

Be quiet in your mind, quiet in your senses, and also quiet in your body. Then, when all these are quiet, don't do anything. In that state truth will reveal itself to you.

I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God.

All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.

Love does not grow on trees or brought in the market, but if one wants to be "LOVED" one must first know how to give (unconditional) LOVE.

What is a holy person? The one who is aware of others' suffering.

Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth.

All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart.

I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.

But if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you.

Your fashion should reflect your true passion for life.

He who does not hope to win has already lost.

I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.

Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.

I am the best in the world at what I do!

Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world.

Culture means control over nature.

I love being a part of something so many people can relate to and enjoy.

Soho has got to be at its centre. It's got such a history for rock, pop, poetry, jazz, writers, all those things, and I think it should be valued as such, and protected as this centre for bohemia.

Any time a body goes outside the environmental conditions for which it developed it has to acclimate.