I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

It's up to God to do the judging. You haven't walked in my boots, so how are you going to judge me?

I'm a huge reggae fan. I want to go to Jamaica and make, like, Bob Marley 'One Love' positive songs. That's what the world needs.

We had a very successful trip to Russia. We made it back.

I was doing a lot of yoga and learning to meditate, and I found that extremely helpful, and still do and hopefully always will.

Only creativity can see past problems to find solutions. This holds true for every area of life.

All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.

Today we say all art is political. But I'd say all art has to do with ethics. Which after all really comes to the same thing. It's a matter of attitudes.

I used to write as an escape. There's no escape. There's just me sending my voice into the dark, waiting for an echo.

If it weren't for Christians, I'd be a Christian.

O, what damned minutes tells he o'er Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet fondly loves!