Everything is Spirit - in essence, though hidden in manifestation. If you had the perception, you would see God in everything.

If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you.

Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world

Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.

I am a spark from the Infinite. I am not flesh and bones. I am light.

Be kind to others, so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself.

No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit

It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.

Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.

Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.

Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror.

Even if love were considered a mental illness, that would not prevent it from being a pleasant one.

Only you can save yourself.

I know one thing for sho Heaven’s gotta have a ghettoCuz where else in death do I get to go?

Everything passes everything wears out everything breaks.(Tout passe tout lasse tout casse.)

As to posterity I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me?

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

When I first started, I wasn't really aware of anything in the industry or aware of who I really was. I just put my music out there and tried to get as many people to hear it as possible.

If there is anything that I think I might use later, I underline it.

Once in a while, when everything is just right, there is a moment of magic. People can live on moments of magic.

Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us.