The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.

Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

Feel the feelings and drop the story.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.

When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.

All I want is a little more than I'll ever get.

I started out as a Democrat.

Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others.

Eating is one of my favorite parts of the day

I'd kill myself without music. Immediately. Life is pointless without music for me.

I think my songwriting might be a little more on the darker side maybe.

The life of a winner is the result of an unswerving commitment to a never-ending process of self-completion .

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

Baseball is not like football, basketball where a momentum is something made. You don't really have that kind of momentum in baseball.