And still, after all this time, The sun never says to the earth, "You owe Me."Look what happens withA love like that, It lights the Whole Sky.

Your love Should never be offered to the mouth of a Stranger, Only to someone Who has the valor and daring To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife Then weave them into a blanket To protect you.

Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.

I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'

I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

I am in love with every church And mosque And temple And any kind of shrine Because I know it is there That people say the different names Of the One God.

Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.

Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of light...And let it breathe.

This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.

You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.

Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.

Music keeps the soul alive.

Being snappy is a symptom of an argument we forgot to have some way back.

What we see in the world around us is just a reflection of what is inside of us.

I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.

When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.

It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.

I'd call what I do pop music, but it's folky and electronic and it doesn't really sound like much else.

I'm a hard workin' man, have been for many long years.

In the last 10 years, in narcotics task forces, in a number of violent crime task forces, we've worked very closely together with state and local law enforcement.