Being thy servant, O Mary, is a surety of salvation God grants solely to those He will save.

It is ourselves that we must spread under Christ's feet, not coats nor lifeless branches or shoots of trees.

life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.

Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.

Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.

Complete departure of kashay (anger-pride-deceit-greed) is Moksha (Liberation). At first, there is the departure of kashays and then there will be ‘that’ [Liberation].

Work for what you want, the pursuit of life.

Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!

Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.

If you put somebody on a crack pipe and give them a 9 mm Baretta, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what's going to happen next.

This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for. I don't know if this man is really taking care of America. This government has been shameful.

Just because I write in the first person doesn't mean that all my songs are autobiographical.