Everything I try to hide ends up screaming from a mountaintop.

Walking away ends a battle in the heart of one, and starts a war in the soul of another.

I didn't want to sing.I wanted to be music.

The most beautiful things often stand alone.

I keep breaking things, as if to see what's going on inside of me.

We write to go on living, after we have died.

If God could transcribe my heart, it'd still read "I love you".

Poetry is a storm asking peace to dance with her.

There is still peace left in the world, and only those with beauty in their soul, care enough to be it.

My life is a room filled with love letters and goodbye notes.

This empty shell holds nothing but the echoes of what was.

If life is a joyful serious journey, then peace should be the train and happiness should be the destination.

Think as though the beauty of your life depends on your thoughts. Live as though your life is the portrait of your thoughts.

Hope was a fool’s emotion.

My outstretched arms found hers, and I was home.

As the twelfth-century Tibetian yogi Milarepa said when he heard of his student Gampopa's peak experiences, 'They are neither good nor bad. Keep meditating.'

Some reviews give pain. This is regrettable, but no author has the right to whine. He was not obliged to be an author. He invited publicity, and he must take the publicity that comes along.

I didn't want to be a big record mogul and all that stuff. I just wanted to write songs and make people laugh.

If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

Arrogance is actually just ignorance. Ignorance of what you really are in relation to the world-but most of all in relation to God.