I was 11 when I was molested. It was like a nuclear explosion going off in my life, destroying everything.

It's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty.

An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.

If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'

We shouldn't have free speech.

People think that if [their abusive] parent apologizes, he'll turn into the person they needed him to be. He won't. An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.

So you start one person at a time. Change one person, you can change a village.

I made the connection between food and weight, but feeling good or bad was a separate issue.

Too many people don't do things for fear of falling. You'll never get good unless you fall. Experiences and new accomplishments are feelings we should never lose.

I thought being vegan was going to be some really horrible way of life that had no flavor.

I had a major surgery, a major abdominal surgery, and a mass was removed from my pelvic area, and I do have some more recovery to do. But everything seems to be fine.

With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write.

People in powerful positions come under scrutiny, and sometimes they get in trouble for things that their underlings did.

I hold communications with saints and angels, even with satan himself.

A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.

No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.

It is forgivable to say nothing out of ignorance; it's inexcusable to remain silent once awareness dawns.

Despise Your enemy stragetically, but take him seriously tactically

Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.

Accept ignorance; pay more attention to the question than the answer; never be afraid to go in the opposite direction.

To float like a cloud you have to go to the trouble of becoming one.