People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.

We are unusual and tragic and alive.

I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.

But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.

Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore.

Time unfolds beauty, wonder, and mystery to reveal the auspicious tapestry of life.

Beauty Is In The Mind of The Beholder.

..I've been trying to argue myself into thinking these things don't matter, A. Really,I have. But I've lost the argument. And I can't keep having it, when I know what the real answer is.

Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.

If we say it long enough eventually we're going to reap a harvest. We're going to get exactly what we're saying.

There has to be a moment when you choose happiness, when you stand up, raise your face towards the sun, and just grab joy and put it in a place where no one can ever take it away from you.

Oh sure, now you like him [after the audience applaud David Oyelowo].

Shambhala can be relevant in terms of what is going on in the world.

I grew up in the south, poor - on rock, dirt roads.

Every great, successful person I know shares the capacity to remain centered, clear, and powerful in the midst of emotional 'storms'.