Somebody else does the rigor and then I listen. I have an assistant, and my manager, and other people who hunt and find and send it to me, and then I just figure out which ones I can do justice to.

Action is the antidote to despair.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come.

Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.

This guy and this guy and this guy… knew a lot of but couldn't find the words which could explain the "knowledge".

The Bible is not religion, nor are the Vedas. The Torah is not religion, nor is the Quran, or any other scripture on earth.

To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.

Hey you —All our fevered history won't instill insight, won't turn a body conscious, won't make that look in the eyes say yes, though there is nothingto solve even as each moment is an answer.

A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain.

I honestly think that in order to be a writer you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here?

How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.

What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.

The thing you love right away, don't do it, because that's the very thing that's going to be your addiction for the rest of your life.

Making a pretty picture, an image, is a completely different thing from acting to camera.