Belief is made up of the same non-substance of which we ourselves are composed. The test of any belief system, then, is the degree to which this same light is permitted to shine through.

Each person you meetis an aspect of yourself, clamoring for love.

The closer you come to knowing that you alone create the world of your experience, the more vital it becomes for you to discover just who is doing the creating.

We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful.

True wealth comes less from having riches than from knowing how to live richly.

Our children are only as brilliant as we allow them to be.

We free our own mindseach time we pause to wonderwhether we are free.

To experience what isn't, love what is.

Quem pausa para admirar a beleza se torna tambem belo.(One who pauses to admire beauty becomes, himself, beautiful.)

The fact of your heart's enfoldment in mine is evidence enough that there is, underneath it all, some hidden order to this world.

Change happens for youthe moment you want somethingmore than you fear it.

My whole life was about her, what if her whole life wasn’t all about me?

My ideas come when I least expect it, so I've always got to have a studio nearby or close by somewhere.

I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can't believe I did that, it's like another person. It's the thought of it, it's just appalling to me.

The art of a magician is to create wonder. If we live with a sense of wonder, our lives become filled with joy.

It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.

I have learned to not let a bad race or failure bring me down, and always walking away with something positive and learning from mistakes so I can be better or stronger next time.

I have observed that not the man who hopes when others despair, but the man who despairs when others hope, is admired by a large class of persons as a sage.

If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.

Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and that there is a Savior. But I won't mention his name in a song just to get a cheap play.

I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.