Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes.

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.

Never exchange the word of God for any wealth.

Love is treating yourself at least as well as you treat others, understanding when someone isn't good for you and knowing when it's time to walk away...

Make an effort to collect the good features from many beautiful faces.

Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary by pass. After such a monumental assault on the heart, it takes years to amend all the habits and attitudes that led up to it.

Not all private equity people are evil. Only some.

I'd love to do a talk show. But I'm too busy for it. It's just too much work.

Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion.

To some people, I am a kind of Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes.

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.