I'm pessimistic about the future of the planet. These big guys don't realize for everything they do, there's a reaction. You have to pay. That's karma.

I'm only myself when I have a guitar in my hands.

All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.

With every mistake, we must surely be learning.

Everyone should have themselves regularly overwhelmed by Nature

Love one another (His last words)

When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they're ready to get it.

Heaven and hell is right now. ... You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions.

Sometimes I feel like I’m actually on the wrong planet. It’s great when I’m in my garden, but the minute I go out the gate I think, ‘What the hell am I doing here?

The world is ready for a mystic revolution, a discovery of the God in each of us.

The cause of most of man's unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now.

God meant for things to be much easier than we have made them

"Come at once," she had written to him. "Help me. Save me. I need you now as I have never needed you before. I love you. I love you. I love you. Come at once"

Stillness overcomes heat.

I'm always looking for a way to serve the nation, but I don't believe that it will be as vice president and I'm really not seeking it, I'm not requesting it and it won't happen.

My experience is that Delhi behaves the way the leadership defines.

I think most writers can't really think about their work without a kind of revulsion. And I think that's probably why we keep going back and trying again, trying to do better each time.

Leaders begin with a different question than others. Replacing who can I blame with how am I responsible?

He who lights his [candle] at mine receives light without darkening me.

If you don't know your gift, you've got no lift.