What happiness this is: to fly, skimming over the earth just as we do in our dreams! Life has become a dream. Can this be the meaning of paradise?

As I watched the seagulls, I thought, That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.

The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.

My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars.

You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed.

There is no limitation in God

Much as he is opposed to lawbreaking he is not bigoted about it.

Because you cannot see him God is everywhere.

Our work in global health is about things like cutting childhood deaths, and every year we continue to make progress there.

I think, it is a challenge to get critics or whoever to see past what you wear and makeup and the way you look and just concentrate on the music.

Meditate. Look at the candle flame - or whatever object you have chosen to gaze upon - with intensity.

If you learn a recipe, you can cook the recipe. If you learn the technique, you can cook anything.

My vision for the future? ... a world completely free from poverty.

FANTASTIC! There is such clarity and so much humor in Stetch’s playing! I have always loved that about him.

If the mind is flexible, the world is flexible.