No two men are absolutely alike, not even twins, yet there is much that is indispensably common to all mankind.

Where there is love there is life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

The future depends on what you do today.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?

I couldn't be a novelist for instance. It feels like a very lonely endeavor. I don't know that I could survive the solitude of that.

Laughing in full abandonment is very good for your health.

And they [illegal immigrants] will come back, but they are going to have to go out, and hopefully they get back.

Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.

Fermentation equals civilization.

Yes, the divorce was difficult. It was difficult.

A man never rises higher than when he does not know whither his path can still lead him.

People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play.

I ran into Axl [Rose] at a club some year ago and told him he's crazy, we all miss them, and he needs to get the band back together.