The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.

Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.

One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart

Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It's a decision.

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

Everything is a battlefield. If you fight with anger, you are part of the problem. If you fight with joy, you're part of the solution.

Music rearranges your molecular structure.

My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can't have it both ways.

Repentance seemed like too loose of a word. I knew I’d been wrong, but that didn’t soften the blow.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.

Lordship and rapport are the keys to save us from being combative and make us more attractive in spiritual conversations.

They also serve who only stand and wait.

What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.

Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out.

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.

The people we care for aren't always the one we should

I would say, don't smoke. I'm kidding, but yeah, I did smoke in college and as a young actor and it's stupid.

To make an omelet you must first break some eggs.