Upon the lips of babes asleep I saw light embracing light and so allowed my syllables to rest there as a prayer they might sing in their dreams.

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.

Rainbows introduce us to reflections of different beautiful possibilities so we never forget that pain and grief are not the final options in life.

If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.

Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.

Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.

You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.

Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.

The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.

There is so much pain in the world, and most of these people keep theirs secret, rolling through agonizing lives in invisible wheelchairs, dressed in invisible bodycasts.

I don't listen to my own music at home.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage.

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.

All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spitoons.

I often say that Arizonans should decide what's best for Arizona.

I think it would be slightly perverse to continue tempting fate by going back to the same places and doing the same sort of thing.

America is always stronger when we do things together.