Truth is a seed hidden in the days until watered by what life brings us.

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.

Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.

The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.

When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.

The real & lasting practice for each of us is to remove what obstructs us so we can be who we are.

To journey without being changed, is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journeying is to be a pilgrim.

Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results.

…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)

Each of us carries some wisdom waiting to be discovered at the center of our experience. Everything we meet, if faced and held, reveals a part of that wisdom.

The little girl skipped by under the wrinkled oak leaves and held fast to a replica of herself.

Your destiny is forged in the fires of your determination

If people would like to come to my concerts I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.

People are taught to fear god. They are taught to fear everything. It has become such a natural state that no one questions it.

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

Reasoned and willing obedience to the laws of the State is the first lesson in non-co-operation.

Writing a screen play with a group of collaborators is like the Lennon McCartney collaboration .... sometimes one or two people do more than others on certain parts of the process and vice versa.

I never know when the seeds are being laid, I'm just like, "Wow, that's a pretty cool scene. Is that? Are we laying seeds here?"

A lot of men are impotent and it's very sad. How many of you are impotent? I see. Can't get your arms up either?

I don't know what drives me, I don't have a clue, but I'm driven more today than I ever have been.