There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows word and word follows thought. And where the thought is mighty and pure, the result is mighty and pure.

When you are willing to stop looking for something in thought, you find everything in silence.

Under the obsessive thoughts and plans, under the emotions, positive and negative, there is an ocean of peace.

Love has nothing to do with another person. Love is Truth. Love is Beauty. Love is Self. To know yourself, to surrender to the truth of yourself, is to surrender to love.

True forgiveness and love arise naturally, effortlessly, from the silence of the heart broken all the way open.

Pure no-thing-ness is conscious intelligence.

You have the freedom, ability and authority to love your life. Just be you, then wait.

If you're laughing, you're healing.

Recognize, you ARE Home. Not, you are 'at home'... you ARE Home. Not, you have 'come home'... you ARE Home. You are that which IS Home.

Safety is knowing that when this particular life form is finished, what it has served remains.

There's great release, really, in not seeing into the future.

Sometimes we place faith in the wrong people for the right reasons. We're too blind to their faults, and they're too blind to appreciate us.—Brighton Hayes

It's so touching to see so much regret in the eyes of people when they say. 'I have no regrets in life

I don't know a critic who penetrates the center of anything.

You can really do some clever editing even within the limited two-track format.

Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty.

As part of Depeche Mode, I don't think it's right for me to be using my own songs for a solo project. I'm not a very prolific songwriter, so I keep those for Depeche Mode.

The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad, and bit the man.

I love shorts in the colder climates, because you can wear them with chunky sweaters and jackets. It's cute and funky.

When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.