Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.

He who does not travel, who does not read, who does not listen to music, who does not find grace in himself, she who does not find grace in herself, dies slowly.

If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life

Love is not about property, diamonds and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you.

In one kiss, you'll know all I haven't said.

To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.

Every day you play with the light of the universe.

Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.

And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.

If each day falls inside each night, there exists a well where clarity is imprisoned. We need to sit on the rim of the well of darkness and fish for fallen light with patience.

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.

Our thoughts deceive us more than our senses.

Politics, like insurance, security, pharmaceutical and religious institutions all work the same. They sell the idea of a threat along with the antidote. Marketing 101.

Whether you are in an eight-hundred-square-foot home or living in a dream house on a lake, contentment is found on the way.

Just like a single cell, the character of our lives is determined not by our genes but by our responses to the environmental signals that propel life.

I can't be bothered anymore about giving songs titles.

Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it.

Georgia is not just a European country, but one of the most ancient European countries.

What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.

Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.