It takes moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God

It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.

A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.

For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.

It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.

Once you label me you negate me.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.

When I did the video for "Piledriver Waltz," I was thinking about rodeo clowns, and how they're risking their lives just to keep an entire arena laughing. They're in danger!

I doubt myself a lot. And I'm very, very just overly critical.

The really important kind of freedom involves...being able truly to care about other people...

Education is helping the child realise his potentialities.

I like the Beatles. They're at the core of my musicality. And John Lennon's my spiritual father.

The most important educational need of the child is to feel himself worthy of love and a worthy dispenser of love. If infants learn what love is, they can go through life with sanity and happiness.

The person who thinks he has found the ultimate truth is wrong.

Be confident. Be compassionate. Be intelligent. Be humble. Be generous. The universe returns to you what you put out.

It's been a long while since we've had a major celebrity criminal case.