Life is like a great teacher..... she will repeat the lesson until you learn.

I didn't go around the world, I went around the world on a private jet. I didn't have a hotel room, we had an entire floor. We were spoiled.

During my sabbatical, I spent two years not listening to my songs at all.

Love, acceptance, friends, two kids that I love. I have to take care of myself for them. I've also been a vegetarian for two years.

Everyday begins like a blank chalkboard, on which each one of us can write the poem of our present and our dreams for the future.

What will happen from now on? It doesn't matter. I can only focus on what's happening to me in this moment.

Getting caught masturbating sucks. I got caught masturbating in jail 7 or 8 times, it really sucks.

And when you feel the heat, the world is at your feet.

Children aren't just our future. They're our present.

Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell someone their faith is wrong.

I need to tell the world what I'm about, my nature, because not doing so would be teaching my children how to lie. I didn't want it to be.

Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.

When you have no preconceived notion of what you are good at, you are open to life's many possibilities.

How does one kill fear I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart slash off its spectral head take it by the spectral throat?

I think that's the trick: wanting what I have.

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

I thought my inner voice was telling me it was time to sell my house and get rid of everything that I had. But what I was told was to just make my load lighter.

Get the shuttle out of the garage. It's in its prime of its life. How could we just put it away?

Great causes and little men go ill together.

Baby-carrying means your hearts are close together. It's a very intense and beautiful way to bond with your baby, very intimate. It's also easier than a stroller.

Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning.