The life of expression is the tuning fork by which we find our way to the sacred.

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.

Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.

The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.

When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.

The real & lasting practice for each of us is to remove what obstructs us so we can be who we are.

To journey without being changed, is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journeying is to be a pilgrim.

Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results.

…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)

Each of us carries some wisdom waiting to be discovered at the center of our experience. Everything we meet, if faced and held, reveals a part of that wisdom.

I guess if you go around with famous people you are assured of some reflected (or deflected) glory.

Whenever I'm on tour and I'm in my hotel room and I'm writing and playing my guitar, I go in the bathroom and I record whatever I'm writing in there. It's just what I love to do.

Major, send a shell first over their heads and let them get in their holes before you open with all your guns.

Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest.

Sometimes people don't have to make you love them...you just do, and there's no help for it.

Usually when the opposing team does well, the crowd quiets down. All I began to hear was a chant 'L-S-U, L-S-U.' It got louder and louder and louder. It was the loudest I've ever heard a stadium.

Of course, people told me, 'Mikey, you will never be an actor. You don't have the look. You're ugly.'

Whenever a woman would come too close, I would cut her off. Part of that was vindictive - but that was totally subconscious.

I like southern girls. They talk so slow that by the time they say no, I made it already.

A good action is preferable to an argument.