Knowledge is essential to freedom.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

The world is governed by opinion.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

May your life preach more loudly than your lips.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Fight for change? Thirst for difference?Start talking what men avoid talking about.

Collaboration is the essence of life. The wind, bees and flowers work together, to spread the pollen.

Hmmmm...What God can't handle doesn't exist. Don't limit Him with your thoughts and words.

People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may, ' usually figure they will not be hit by a chip.

The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality.

Believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic.

In Tantric Zen there is no rule. There is only your immediate experience.

I don't wake up drenched in sweat because I haven't been on stage in years.

Depression is a physical illness.