The secret to my own happiness, my own good future, is within my own hands. I must not miss that opportunity!

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.

The more honest you are, the more open, the less fear you will have, because there's no anxiety about being exposed or revealed to others.

Because there was only one thing worse than dying. And that was knowing you were going to die. And where. And how. (“Death Ship”)

We are all artists painting our desires on the canvas of life and time.

I always loved being with older people. Now they're so difficult to find.

Now I know which came first - the chicken not the egg.

Love was not specified in the design of your brain; it is merely an endearing algorithm that freeloads on the leftover processing cycles.

What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed.

Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking.

If I had been told to get out of the street as a teenager, there would have been a distinct possibility that I might have smarted off. But, I wouldn’t have expected to be shot.

Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.

Nobody gets into a band and thinks they're going to have a 30-year career.