Deep down in the human spirit, there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.

Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

Feel the feelings and drop the story.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.

Poetry empowers the simplest of lives to confront the most extreme sorrows with courage, and motivates the mightiest of offices to humbly heed lessons in compassion.

Doubt is not an offense. Questioning is a step toward understanding. I am riven by beauty. I am humbled by grace. I strive to be kind, but not because I was told to.

Failure is only permanent where resiliency fails to exist.

I guess what they say is true. Anything the government wants to hide, they stick it in New Mexico

I enjoyed singing, I loved song writing, I loved recording. All those things that involves with creating music was great.

It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere.

So it is the business community and agricultural community who I think might have the most influence on helping us make this effort more bipartisan.

It's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out?

I never have a problem with being black. I have a problem with the easy association of what that means to some people.

And how could I believe that Australian wine was automatically inferior to wine sourced from other regions on the planet when I had never drunk anything but liquid nitrogen?