I come from a family of lawyers. I was expected to be a professional of some sort, not an artist. I was never uplifted for my art.

You can't sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave.

I am part of a divine essence. I don't have to become anything. I already am.

I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.

The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; its love - that one principle.

Authenticity means to be the author of your own life.

When an individual changes in even a small way he immediately changes the world around him. And that concentric circle moves out and changes everything.

Love is not always about ‘everything’s fine’…love is about truth. Truth and love are one in the same. It doesn’t always come in a sweet little box with a bow on it.

What matters is who we are, not who we beat.

The bike accident caused me to start talking about spiritual truths. This accident - where I faced my own death - compelled me to talk about these truths and try to make a movie about them.

We started by asking what’s wrong with the world, and we ended up discovering what’s right with it.

Living close to the groundIs seventh Heaven 'cause there are angels all aroundAmong my frivolous thoughtsI believe there are beautiful things seen by the astronautsWake me if you're out there.

The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

Population is a strong driver of the economy as well as the quality of the labor force.

Fashion is such stuff as dreams are made on.

I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.

People who work hard for their money cannot be placed in a worse position that those who allow their money to work for them.

So What or Kind of Blue were done in that era, the right hour, the right day. It's over; it's on the record.

Only after I've seen the visible can I imagine what the invisible is.

Anyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is not a flaw of character; it is a catastrophe.