When you start with thanksgiving, you will always end with praise. Be thankful, it grows.

What you see is highly dependent on how you look.

Wisdom is not in having resources, it's in knowing how to use them, when to use them & if to use them.

Foolishness is not a lack of resources, it's the lack of wisdom.

Dare to be a fool in the face of impossibilities.

Don't throw away your faith because doubt is present, throw away your doubts because faith is present

The purpose of revelation is to alter your experience.

Knowledge deepens with experience.

The truth is precious commodity, not everyone will possess her.

The sole purpose of knowledge is to create hunger for experience.

Do whatever makes your spirit glow out loud.

I’m not sure. But – unless I’m struggling with the darkness within – I like to sustain the illusion that death is actually much further from me than it really is.

Fearing the wind that causes the shaking branch directs you to where energy is needed for improving your life.

After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault.

If I could live in one city and do every single thing I do there, I would choose Venice. You can't turn your head without seeing something amazing.

But the reality is that we are a folk band.

Always try to create positivity. Even when people aren't.

My handsome Knight of Night came over to me and kissed me softly on the cheek.

The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be.

You can't create a work without being aware that it will change dependent upon the context or the society where it is developed or consumed.

When meeting royalty, it is very important, no matter how excited you are, not to vomit on them. Instead, vomit on the nearest commoner.