Sing because this is a food our starving world needs. Laugh because that is the purest sound.

Your love Should never be offered to the mouth of a Stranger, Only to someone Who has the valor and daring To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife Then weave them into a blanket To protect you.

Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.

I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'

I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

I am in love with every church And mosque And temple And any kind of shrine Because I know it is there That people say the different names Of the One God.

Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.

Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of light...And let it breathe.

This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.

You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.

My grin was feral, matching my savage best friend’s.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a male is when he's a baby.

A different language is a different vision of life.

My parents said that sitting at home playing video games all day won't bring you anywhere in life.

The world was beautiful when looked at in this way-without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.

I gotta pound the keys for the ideas to flow.

I tend to play a lot of blues things at home, because most blues things are basically within a 12-bar pattern.

One's complete sentences are attempts, as often as not, to complete an incomplete self with words.

The greatest things in life - truth, creativity, imagination, love, kindness, compassion -are already inside us, and they're all free.