To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God's name is Abraxas.

I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

The thing I write will be the thing I write.

There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches.

Where there's guts, there's curiosity, and where there's curiosity, there's guts.

Man is born to dream, to be enlightened, to connect and to be fulfilled. Managers are too.

If a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount.

To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.

I think it's important for fans to know that but if I'm doing something that inspires me musically then I think it will inspire someone else too.

You are the vibrational writers of the script of your life, and everyone else in the Universe is playing the part that you have assigned to them.

Family is the root of all that is good in our lives, and I am so grateful for mine.

Christianity would be helpless without the idea of freewill and the idea of freewill would be helpless without incongruity.