Be compassionate ... and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be a better place.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.

You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship

Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others.

Love wins, love always wins.

Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like.

Without love we all like birds with broken wings.

Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?

Poetry is the whispering of a truth by the shouting of the best possible lies

You're not here just to make a living but for appreciating and expressing gratitude for the abundance and beauty of life that you are enjoying.

You show me a school with a principal behind the desk, and I'll show you a school without principal leadership. (Quoting Baruti Kafele)

When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record collection like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin.

Death comes black and hard, rushing down on me from the future, with no possible chance of escape.

For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering.

I'm quite dyslexic in school.

You cannot acquire the gift of peace if by your anger you destroy the peace of the Lord.

Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.

So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.