I think that modern medicine has become like a prophet offering a life free of pain. It is nonsense. The only thing I know that truly heals people is unconditional love.

The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Religious patients seemed to differ little from those without a religion.

The beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

All events are blessings given to us to learn from.

To set their sufferings alongside the sufferings of another people was to compare them (which hell was worse?), demoting Sarajevo's martyrdom to a mere instance.

Don't die with your music still in you, play your music unencumbered. Should your guitar remain unstrung?

If one flower has to grow out of all the weeds, let that flower be YOU.

Grace arrived, like the big, loopy stitches with which a grandmotherly stranger might baste your hem temporarily.

The good news is that in every deck of fifty-two cards there are 2,598,960 possible hands. The bad news is that you are only going to be dealt one of them.

Discipline isn't about showing a dog who's boss; it's about taking responsibility for a living creature you have brought into your world.

Rocket to Russia' is, I think, my favorite Ramones record. We reached our peak at that point.

You can't bomb a people just in case.

Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye.

How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?