Music is the celestial sound, and it is sound that controls the whole universe, not atomic vibrations. Sound energy, sound power, is much, much greater than any other power in the world.

Any kind of expectation creates a problem. We should accept, but not expect. Whatever comes, accept it. Whatever goes, accept it. The immediate benefit is that your mind is always peaceful.

Anything that you throw comes back. All your actions are echoes.

If your heart is beautiful, your face will be beautiful, your life will be beautiful, everything will be beautiful.

Let us accept all the different paths as different rivers running toward the same ocean.

Who will be the happiest person? The one who brings happiness to others.

Peace comes not from doing, but from undoing; not from getting, but from letting go.

You are the cause of your own joy or your own misery. You hold that power. You are your own friend and your own enemy.

Our own true nature is Infinite Joy! Always happy, Always peaceful, Always free.

The greatest victory you can win is over your own mind.

Now will never leave. It is always here. Like a clear canvas, it awaits our painting.

When you meet someone, never forget to give them two important presents: your love and your smile. It will cost you nothing.

Do you think God would heal an adulterer? Well I believe if God would save an adulterer, then He would heal one.

I wouldn't change anything that happened.That's the way the game was played when I was coming up. The game is different now. It's just a by-product of the era.

It's always a job when you're the reason they're assembling. If you're just doing shows and you're on a lineup with eight other guys, it's fun, it's great.

Sometimes the closest-held secrets in the world can be pried out by the right question at the right time.

The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.

If you look at what is happening in Republican conventions across the country, they are energized. And the message is really the same - that is, big government is a problem, spending is a problem.

That's what world leadership is: A willingness to point at bad guys and say they're the bad guys and to keep the bad guys from getting worse! That's leadership. Obama didn't want to go there.

To build is to be robbed.

Keeping animals, I have learned, is all about water. Who even knew chickens drank water? I didn't, but they do, and a lot.