America has never paid any attention to other people, so it's absurd for Bush to say that it's all in the best interests of the Iraqi people.

The reality is, we can change. We can change ourselves. We can change our minds. We can change our hearts. And therefore the universe changes.

I don't regret anything. Everything happens for a reason-it's part of the healing process. Life is a healing process.

Always walk towards open doors. And if they slam shut in your face, kick that sucker in and keep going.

I can’t remember that I was ever looking for anything. I was waiting for something to touch me. It’s like, I’ll be open to it, and see if it moves me. There has to be a "falling in love" moment.

In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.

Everyone responds to kindness.

There are times when telling lies are not a bad thing. It can be a compassionate thing. But to make it benign, you have to be aware of your compassionate reasons for telling that lie.

I'm younger than I once was. Internally. Less self-conscious. Less insecure.

I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.

People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory.

Being grateful does not mean that everything is necessarily good. It just means that you can accept it as a gift.

It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world.

I'm so grateful that I can play and that I can execute what I hear in my head, because that's the tricky part.

All life is a movement in relationship. There is no living thing on earth which is not related to something or other.

In America, everything you need to succeed is within reach.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Tattoos to me are the outward symbol of the inward change within my soul.

When something is not good, it's bad. Period

We think about mortality so little, these days, except to flail hysterically at it with trendy forms of exercise and high-fiber cereals and nicotine patches.

Yes I know my enemies. They're the teachers who taught me to fight me, compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite, all of which are American dreams.