I've spent too many years at war with myself, the doctor has told me it's not good for my health.

I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.

If you play music with passion and love and honesty, then it will nourish your soul, heal your wounds and make your life worth living. Music is its own reward.

Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.

A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice.

When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.

You have to be yourself. Stay true to who and what you are. And if people still like you, that's great! If they don't, that's their problem.

I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.

I don't think happiness is necessarily the reason we're here. I think we're here to learn and evolve, and the pursuit of knowledge is what alleviates the pain of being human.

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.

Let your soul be your pilot.

Oh baby, your planet sounds like paradise but it just doesn't fly down here in the trenches.

Every road leads somewhere. The challenge is to pick the right road and then to stay on it.

The nearer I approach the end the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous yet simple.

There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.

I think you figure out how to be funny by necessity. It's not a natural thing, being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant - it tends to get worse.

And remember, that is the criterion. If a person can enjoy and celebrate his death, that shows he has lived rightly; there is no other criterion. Your death will prove how you have lived.

The Father did not require the death of Christ to persuade Him to love us. Christ died because the Father loves us.

To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart.