The leaves on the Tree of Life are for the healing of the nations, but what are the fruits for?-They must be just for the pleasure of eating!

There are a lot of good people going to Hell, and a lot of bad people like you and me going to Heaven!

We live like Heaven already, a little bit of Heaven right here and now! What could we have more?-Only more of the same and better!

My idea of Heaven is what we've got right now, right here!-All this beauty and pleasure and fun and inspiration and spirit and fellowship and joy, all of this and more so and more of it!

God is a racist! He has a special elite race of supermen who are going to live above all others in the Holy City, the magical, mystical, marvelous, mysterious Space City!

Musicians can look forward to playing with the best musicians that ever played. They can even have their own band!

I don't know how perfect everybody is going to be in Heaven, but anyhow, certainly a lot better than here!

Leaving this life is just like going from one room to another and closing the door.

Heaven is going to be like this life, only better. It will be like this life with all its joys and beauties and pleasures, but without the drawbacks - with all the assets but none of the liabilities.

Your body is not the real you. It's just the physical house you live in. The real you is your spirit, which will live on forever.

Death is the funeral of all our sorrows.

It was never about the world being too big, it was more like she was too much for the world to handle.

But we are only termites on a planet and maybe when we bore too deeply into the planet there'll be a reckoning. Who knows?

when you are about to give up just remember you have only two choices: stay in course or start all over again!

Enjoy, smile... wild... peace.

Reprove not a scorner lest he hate thee rebuke a wise man and he will love thee.

That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.

It's got to do with the contention between content and form. Invariably that's what's responsible for its energies, its tensions, its being interesting or not.

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

My goal is to get peace and my goal is to see education of every child.

Lionel [Richie] said, "Yeah, I learned chords and stuff playin' against your albums."