There is more value in placing a flower in a rifle barrel than making war. As Jimi Hendrix used to say, musical notes have more importance than bullets.

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.

There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.

Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.

One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart

Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It's a decision.

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

Everything is a battlefield. If you fight with anger, you are part of the problem. If you fight with joy, you're part of the solution.

Music rearranges your molecular structure.

My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

Thus ended the first and adventurous part of his existence. What followed was so different that, but for the reality of sorrow which remained with him, this strange part must have resembled a dream.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by

How did I get to be a grown-up? At times, I find myself still sitting on the hillside, plotting revenge against the adult world.

I also don't believe that "everything happens for a reason," which is in a similar category of world-views.

If Michael Bisping ever addresses me in a public comment again, I will bury him where he stands.

We usually see only the things we are looking for- so much so that we sometimes see them where they are not.

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

A conductor should reconcile himself to the realization that regardless of his approach or temperament the eventual result is the same-the orchestra will hate him.

As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you and your gang will ... dramatically up the odds of a WOW outcome!

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.