We don't need anymore empowered people who are all about the ego.

I know that if we allow ourselves into the gridlock of tribalism, we're in trouble.

If you're interested in the door to the heavens opening, start with the door to your own secret self.

What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.

Grief is an expression that you loved well.

When you feel yourself breaking down, may you break open instead.

One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.

Fear is a sneaky thief, stealing away precious moments of your life.

In the true spirit of the holidays, let the darkness of your moods lead you back up to the light, and when New Year's rolls around, your resolution will be tinged with new authenticity and power.

When we slow down, quiet the mind, and allow ourselves to feel hungry for something that we do not understand, we are dipping into the abundant well of spiritual longing.

I think that life is a friggin' magic carpet ride - it's amazing. Everything about life is mysterious and beautiful and touching and tragic and lovely and mystical.

The journey of greatness begins in the mind

Every society has the criminals that it deserves.

Gods, man, don't you start now, ' I said softly. 'We're going to get a terrible reputation if we just keep travelling across the countryside crying all the time.

We must ask ourselves how many times others would benefit more from our silence than from our words.

I love playing someone who just skates by and does anything she wants.

Until the sky is the limit [for women], as it is for men, men as well as women will suffer, because all society is affected when half of it is denied equal opportunity for full development.

It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object which may for the time being take possession of the mind.

I really believe in the characters I play.

Don't let the company get distracted or excited about other things. A common mistake is that companies get excited by their own PR.

That's what's nice about playing festivals, too. You're on this huge, enormous stage and you've got 200,000 watts of power blowing your guitars all over the place. It sounds good.