If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.

There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.

Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.

One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart

Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It's a decision.

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

Everything is a battlefield. If you fight with anger, you are part of the problem. If you fight with joy, you're part of the solution.

Music rearranges your molecular structure.

My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

Pride had kept her running when love had betrayed her.

Life should be simple and easy. If you're doing it hard, you're doing it wrong.

Why do people always wonder whether books are any good, without wondering whether they are themselves in a state to profit from them?

It seems like there are so many homesick people in the world. It seems like so many of us live far away from where we were born.

The poorest people sometimes have the richest minds.

I am the most fortunate self-taught harpist and non-speaking actor who has ever lived.

Especially being around young people, ... It helps put things in the proper perspective as you return back to the chaos of politics.

As long as you've got serious investors who wish to put money into football, I applaud. It proves that football is attractive. What upsets me, what I find scandalous is when clubs accept fools.

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing of her gallèd eyes, She married. O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!