I have no desire to walk on water," said Siddhartha. "Let the old shamans satisfy themselves with such skills".

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God's name is Abraxas.

I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

You only need grace to allow the light and good spirit of your sacred-self to exist.

You have it on your noise, but you still need a glass to see it... We need others to admit our faults.

My whole life was about her, what if her whole life wasn’t all about me?

If a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms, that doesn't make them Kobe Bryant.

I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.

I'm not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in activities that I believe in.

A cruel critic has never made anything; his glibness is a way of inflicting his emptiness on others.

A dream does not die on its own. A dream is vanquished by the choices ordinary people make about real things in their own lives.

Time is a monster that cannot be reasoned with. It responds like a snail to our impatience, then it races like a gazelle when you can't catch a breath.

Every 15, 20, 25 years, a new rock and roll record needs to come out and a new rock and roll band needs to come out.