To reject the necessity of temples is to reject the necessity of God, religion and earthly existence.

Where there is love there is life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

The future depends on what you do today.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

My relief dissipates as James Blunt's yowling voice is overwhelmed by the scream of locking brakes:eieeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE... My head lurches into darkness.

I am glad that people are trying to have a rational conversation about drugs.

... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.

Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?

I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it's dark.

The reward that outdoes all others is the peace of knowing that you did right.

I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

Theology must work itself out in the most practical relationships.

You ever been on a date so bad, the girl makes you drop her off at another dude's house?

Knit your hearts with an unslipping knot.