Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.

I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.

If you play music with passion and love and honesty, then it will nourish your soul, heal your wounds and make your life worth living. Music is its own reward.

Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.

A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice.

When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.

You have to be yourself. Stay true to who and what you are. And if people still like you, that's great! If they don't, that's their problem.

I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.

I don't think happiness is necessarily the reason we're here. I think we're here to learn and evolve, and the pursuit of knowledge is what alleviates the pain of being human.

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.

Let your soul be your pilot.

I was just down in Dallas, Texas...the Assassination Museum...it's really accurate, you know, 'cause Oswald's not in it.

You can get defeated, just as long as you don't fail.

It take a certain type of man to teach, to be far from hood but to understand the streets.

The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people.

Our issue isn't when we get something done, ... it's how appropriate it is when we do it.

There is only ever one answer to the question what did you do with your life, and it's the same--fleeting and unknowable--for every one of us. I lived.

Women get 77 cents on the dollar that men get for the same job.

Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.

Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation.