Sufism is about connecting with the intuitive parts of ourselves so that we can attune to the highest vibration in the universe, which is pure love. It's about joining together in the mystical heart.

[Buddhism] takes us beyond a kind of self-centered narcissism because instead of identifying with the content of our experience, we identify with awareness itself.

I don't believe people when they say their songs have nothing to do with their personal life.

Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.

You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.

It's what you've been a part of for so long. I don't think I can watch a game without an interest in who wins.

Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.

the mediation of internal conflicts can be resolved by linkages with other problems.

Sometimes I'll leave the house and go to a delicatessen down the street from me - it's been there a million years - just because I can look at people.

Did the poet use red to symbolize blood? Anger? Lust? Or is the wheelbarrow simply red because red sounded better than black?

Let’s reserve judgment for people who beat their children, sell their daughters into prostitution, or deny women the right to make decisions about their bodies and their lives.

I had some great things and I had some bad things. The best and the worst . . . In other words, I had a life.