Peace is the most valuable commodity. And it's free!

Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don't like.

Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.

If you know how to let go and be at peace, you know everything you need to know about living in the world.

Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions

Why seek revenge? Karma is going to get the bastards anyway

The secret of life is... everything is out of control.

Understand the place of love in a spiritual life. A powerful and blissful type of love has no conditions, no ownership and no people involved. Be free from fear. Be who you are. That is love.

When the weather is hot, keep a cool mind. When the weather is cold, keep a warm heart.

Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.

Life is what's happening while you're worrying.

Children know something that most people have forgotten.

Avoid the man without compassion, because he ain’t a man surely!

Every time I surrender to stress, aren’t I advertising the unreliability of God?

I didn't want to do something typical.

When I moved to New York, leggings were always a staple piece in my closet and I'm always with leggings, a T-shirt, a cool jacket and shoes cause that's what would be easier for me when I was a kid.

People were never meant to be idols. We aren't supposed to be worshipped. Only God deserves that kind of praise.

Musicians ought to reclaim some of the power in the houses of production. The opera houses are run either by managers or by stage directors, never by musicians.

I'd just say you hurt me and you hurt me only because you involved my family. But after that I'd say 'hey draw nearer to your family because that's exactly what I did.'

Well, what I want them to know is, just like John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa, that's the kind of spirit that I have, too.

You prepare. You study. You've got to be ready for anything.