The mystics will tell you death is perfectly safe. A violent act will beget a violent act; it is simply a law.

You can't sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave.

I am part of a divine essence. I don't have to become anything. I already am.

I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.

The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; its love - that one principle.

Authenticity means to be the author of your own life.

When an individual changes in even a small way he immediately changes the world around him. And that concentric circle moves out and changes everything.

Love is not always about ‘everything’s fine’…love is about truth. Truth and love are one in the same. It doesn’t always come in a sweet little box with a bow on it.

What matters is who we are, not who we beat.

The bike accident caused me to start talking about spiritual truths. This accident - where I faced my own death - compelled me to talk about these truths and try to make a movie about them.

We started by asking what’s wrong with the world, and we ended up discovering what’s right with it.

There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it's flashing glory.

The smile on his face said, pure and simple, those honey cakes came with a price. And his price was answers.

Ah what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!

The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.

The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct.

If you've become a huge act and you're still doing the same music you wrote with your friends when you were making zero dollars, you're lazy.

The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.

I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will.

A lot of artists need structure.