There are no intermediaries when it comes to matters of change. Anyone who is not for change is against it. Anyone who is against change is an enemy of nature!

What the fertilizer does to the germinating plant is what happiness does for a depressed soul... What anger does to a person is what an acid does to its container!

All you need is a little hope in order cope in times of failure, and be able to try again with a better intelligence for excellence!

Sometimes you try to fly and you fall. Remember your falls are not fatal, they're just a little painful. Endure the pain, clean the blood stain, you'll surely gain! Get up and fly again!

Those who die with their music still on their tongues unsung are trying to say “God had made a deal with the wrong customer like me

Never turn your back to those who have faced your problems on your behalf. Never shut your mouth on those who have opened their hearts to receive you!

When the thing that your heart strongly loves to do is the thing world hungers and thirsts to see done, then that's what you were called to do. You must never leave it undone!

When there is too much sorrow in your heart, true compassion gets its ways out of it. Don’t make a will over your sorrow, nobody needs to inherit it!

If you truly have compassion in your heart, show it by keeping your doubts to yourself and sharing your hope with those who love change!

Before you can positively and passionately pursue what your heart love to do, you must first be grateful to the one who gave you such a heart to love such a thing!

Hatred gives you nothing, takes nothing from you, but destroys everything you have! Be careful of ideas of hatred that comes into your head. Destroy them before they make nests in your mind!

People do not meet by chance––they navigate their lives to certain people for certain reasons.

Knowing to do the right thing, but playing stupid to oblige to it, is still lying.

The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.

This is a great mind at work examining itself. This is where literature comes from.

The only art form that Americans have created that's recognized around the world is jazz music born in a community that had the peculiar experience of being unfree in a free land.

I like challenging people. I love pop music that can just throw you off.

The real problem is arranging that experience in a way that tells a story, which is just incredible enough to be interesting, but credible enough to be believed.

It was great fun. We had gone on tour in between the sessions and reconnected with the audience and got a lot of energy back from them, a lot of positive energy.

I was just getting tired of the image bullshit...that man of mystery trip and what have you. What's that all about?

Let your thoughts be ruled by principle, and then live up to your thoughts.