Approaching this day with optimism and fire, with patience and determination, with compassion and love.

There's just as much wisdom in knowing when to keep quiet as there is in knowing when to speak up. Use your voice wisely.

In my experience, it is always worth it to find the love that lives inside you. No matter how deep you have to dig sometimes.

Give people a chance.

Shit works out.

A happiness trick:do more things that make you happy, and you'll be happy more often.

There is absolutely no point in comparing ourselves to others. Everyone brings to the world exactly what they are meant to bring, and in doing so touches exactly who they are meant to touch.

No one determines your truth but you.You can’t paint your own self-portrait with someone else’s hand.

I finally stopped seeking in others everything I could only find in myself.

We can’t heal what we refuse to acknowledge.

I can’t control my feelings, but I’m learning to have a say in how much my feelings control me.

Power is strength and the ability to see yourself through your own eyes and not through the eyes of another.

I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.

May the peace of God disturb you always.

My songs emerge from my life, or wherever they do, unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own.

Ultimate seriousness in not without a dose of humor.

I've always toured solo acoustic.

I'm a lot older. I'm wiser. I know what to do now, and hopefully, I don't get in (anybody's) way.

No one has ever become poor from giving.

You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.

I will never let Israel down.