If you think you can't do something, you can't. But if you think you can, you may be surprised to discover that you can.

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Ultimate peace begins within; when we find peace within there will be no more conflict, nor more occasion for war.

When love fills your life all limitations are gone. The medicine this sick world needs so badly is love.

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens.

A life without problems would be a barren existence, without the opportunity for spiritual growth.

Live according to your highest light and more light will be given.

It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.

SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.

Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.

I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man.

When one thing ends, you put it away and start from scratch on the next thing.

Surely the United States Senate is big enough to take self-criticism and self-appraisal. Surely we should be able to take the same kind of character attacks that we "dish out" to outsiders.

A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.

I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water, and was prepared to give up everything in life, he could do it.

Have you noticed that the people who actually make the laws, the people in power, never make laws for themselves?

When I was just getting started making my own music, my dad said, "You should think about art, but also anti-art and non-art."