If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

Even the weak become strong when they are united.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

Music open our minds to allow the perception of new thoughts of a higher nature, which gives us a spiritual lift, which produces yet more joy.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future

The narrow edge between comfort and discomfort is to a yogi what a grain of sand is to an oyster.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

The country is suffering from musical-chairs syndrome. We all dance around for a bit and then when we try to sit down again, somebody doesn't have a chair. We're running scared; we want ours.

A lot of my love of literature comes from Oz and Alice.

The cross means suffering. Suffering's meaning is to be learned through the cross.

You work hard for your income, and that hard work is what fuels the economy.

Enlightenment is getting off the wheel. Enlightenment is to become pure awareness.

Songwriting is never one thing. I've spent as long as three months writing a song. Other times I've done it in twenty minutes.