I don't want to pretend to tell that I always feel the presence of God because I don't. My consciousness is very often closed to that feeling - most of the time.

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.

The best things in life are free. And it is important never to lose sight of that. So look around you. Wherever you see friendship, loyalty, laughter, and love...there is your treasure.

Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow.

FEAR is an acronym in the English language for 'False Evidence Appearing Real'.

Everything is falling together perfectly, even though it looks as if some things are falling apart. Trust in the process you are now experiencing.

A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.

If you don't go within, you go without.

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.

Hell is the opposite of joy. It is unfulfillment. It is knowing Who and What You Are, and failing to experience that. It is being less.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense.

But what is a person, George? How much is a person worth? Are we nothing but dust that is whipped up and spread to the winds?

Be a fairy. Dance like a butterfly.

I would say Gary Snyder, who is from my part of the world as a poet and environmental thinker, will be read just as Henry Thoreau as John Muir will continue to be read.

The unpleasant events you are passing from will not have been profitless to you.

If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over.

When you live in a small town in the Ukraine, you definitely want to go to Paris.

I can't make two records at the same time. Whatever I do, I have to concentrate on and put everything in, because if I don't, I'm just not good.

A Grandmother is a safe haven.

Some people are more nice than wise.