Ill health is also a blessing. The flesh and the ego are weakened and contemplation of God becomes easier.

Meditation is silence. If you realize that you really know nothing, then you will be truly meditating. Such truthfulness is the right soil for silence. Silence is meditation.

Happiness and sorrow are twins, let them come and go like clouds.

No Buddhist, no Christian, no Hindu. Deeply religious people have no religion. They belong to no seat, theirs is the religion of the heart!

Why do you want to open the outside door when there is an inside door?

The Lord gives strength for every good deeds.

I just wanted to go out and make a record that Ive always wanted to make since I was a kid.

I love having an open seat next to me on the train. What's even better is when my seat is open too because I just stayed home.

The most interesting thing about artists is how they live

The only currency still used as a store of value after 5000 years is gold

For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.

Man, we’ve got something special. Don’t screw it up.

There are some things I like about L.A. You can have a really healthy lifestyle, and I love running with the dogs on the beach. It's just the social scene is horrific!

I believe the universe conspires to give you everything you desire.

You're after something - not a story, but a certain, exquisitely intense encounter with beauty - and the only way to find it is to tiptoe past the dragon's cave.