It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for.

The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.

Those who lived by the sword were forced to die by it.

In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight.

Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.

It is good to put your life in other people's hands.

If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.

When shall I be dead and rid Of all the wrong my father did? How long, how long 'till spade and hearse Put to sleep my mother's curse?

It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive armaments than anybody else.

It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.

It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them.

If Nature brought you to it. Nature will get you through it.

Even if I make a gospel album, my gospel songs are going to get you dancing and crunk.

I went to Kerala in India, to learn Ayurveda, which was fantastic.

How easy it is to think well of ourselves. Until the moment is upon us, we can never be certain.

People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...

Secular music was not allowed in our household.

It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.

Success isn't something that occurs. Success is something that you create

Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self of the kind that happens when we fall in love.

This caste system had grown by the practice of the son always following the business of the father.