Since the earliest days of our youth, we have been conditioned to accept that the direction of the herd, and authority anywhere — is always right.

Stand up for what is right even if it means standing alone.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Teach all men to fish, but first teach all men to be fair. Take less, give more. Give more of yourself, take less from the world. Nobody owes you anything, you owe the world everything.

Whenever you should doubt your self-worth, remember the lotus flower. Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty.

Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.

Control your vibrations and you are the master of your own harmony.

Time has always been the greatest ally to Truth, because Time eventually relieves and reveals all.

Your heart has a powerful little antenna and its vibrations can be felt throughout the universe.

Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter.

Truth will never imprison you. Only the repression of your conscience will. This is what is meant by 'THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE'.

Life is a winking light in the darkness.

Sometimes the heart speaks, and the brain does not understand the language.

Feelings can have a life of their own and you have very little direct control over them, except perhaps to make them worse.

Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest – sometimes with extensive borrowing – when and where matters of life and death are at stake.

Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.

Truly even he errs that is wiser than the wise.

Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.

We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.

For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.

When I came back to America, I realized that world music is no joke, it really has a lot to it.