Its so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.

Come up and be a kite, On a diamond flight!

Everyone of us has a heaven inside.

I just know that something good is going to happen. I don't know when - but just saying it could even make it happen.

I love the whirling of the dervishes. I love the beauty of rare innocence. You don't need no crystal ball, Don't fall for a magic wand. We humans got it all, we perform the miracles.

I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.

It's not important to me that people understand me.

What am I singing? A song of seeds The food of love. Eat the music.

I spend a lot of my time looking at blue, The colour of my room and my mood.

I don’t know you, And you don’t know me. It is this that brings us together.

Mozart didn't have Pro Tools, but he did a pretty good job.

True happiness is not found. It finds you.

God is a life-giving light.

You can't do it better without teamwork.

The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death.

Every time we say we believe in the Holy Spirit, we mean we believe that there is a living God able and willing to enter human personality and change it.

Every illness is an opportunity for compassionate revelations.

Write words you’re willing to burn at the stake for. Write words you’d believe in even if the rest of the world didn’t.

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

I'm writing mostly to thank you for living you eighty years and to tell you I love you and think of you often.

I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.