Influence is everything. One wrong influence can single handedly destroy every bit of your innocence and innocence is the root of all wisdom.

There used to be a time when i thought of god i'd look to the power in the sky, now when i think of god i look at the power within myself.

Never let anybody destroy your own ability to create happiness.Its the only thing that will let you succeed when you feel everything else has let you down.Peace and love.

Talk is cheap for the man who boasts his worth, you don't have to take my word to know who i am.

True love will break you, it devotes to break your beat up, broken heart awaiting to repair and align you to your true purpose.

It's little got to do with anybody, just the energies we create.

Empathy is the highest qualification one can obtain in order to genuinely love.

For true liberation, the only war we need to win is the war between presence and ego.

Where wealth is health, bankruptcy is death.

I found myself, lost inside the depths of my darkest days amazed to find the most of you watching me hoping i’d stay.

One time I actually cleaned out my closet so good I ended up on the cover of Time magazine.

The only way a man can realise his freedom, its only when he has freed his mind. Therefore, freedom means nothing if the mind is still not free. Free your mind and it will free your life too.

I sleep with the lights on now. Not because I’m afraid of the dark, but because I like to keep the night as far away as I can.

The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.

I've missed half or two-thirds of my children's lives.

I consider the Christian religion so important, [Jesus is] somebody I can totally rely on in my own mind.

Christ is never fully valued, until sin is clearly seen.

I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang.

I alter some things, eliminate and try again until I am satisfied. Then begins the mental working out of this material in its breadth, its narrowness, its height and depth.

People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.