My style kinda comes from the music I listen to.

Breathing is meditation; life is a meditation. You have to breathe in order to live, so breathing is how you get in touch with the sacred space of your heart.

If I know what's true in my heart and my soul, then what people say can't shape that.

If you don't like me, if you like me; both are equally cool. I send love and positive energy to all those people in their lives. I hope they find where they're meant to be.

I want to embrace my full self, as natural as I can be.

The only thing that really matters is spreading love and light and acceptance and unity throughout the entire world in any way that you possibly can.

Caring less what everybody else thinks, but also caring less and less about what your own mind thinks, because what your own mind thinks, sometimes, is the thing that makes you sad.

There're no novels that I like to read so I write my own novels, and then I read them again, and it's the best thing.

Comparing yourself to somebody else is like comparing yourself to a bird.

Don’t be afraid to be yourself and don’t let anybody tell you that that’s wrong. Because the best thing is you.

If I had to change one thing about my life, it would probably be, I wouldn't be famous. Because when you're famous it's so hard.

Curiosity—asking questions—isn’t just a way of understanding the world. It’s a way of changing it.

When you have wings of love to fly, why do you sit in a prison and cry?

Gratitude of heart can often be seen in a generous spirit.

When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.

Treat people like you want to be treated; live and let live; and also give the other person a break now and then.

Sometimes it's a struggle to live in the moment.

Justice is the right of the weakest.

I know I come off differently than I think of myself. I'm always surprised by what people say about me.

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.