While reason steers a man, it is faith alone that moves him

It is not courage that makes us speak the truth, but it is a hunger for truth that makes us courageous

Fortune crowns the bold before the worthy

It's by stooping that fingers create a fist, and by standing tall that they give us open palms.

The first act in the training of a warrior should be how to string his rifle and turn it into a guitar

There is only one thing worse than a little baby who won't stop crying: it is a big baby who won't stop whining about it

It is only in grammar that the mighty can be bound by rules made by the humble

Might without right makes blight

Today's troubled homes are made by parents who want to have children but don't want their children to have parents

To be laughed at draws more profitable attention than being smiled at

Fortune draws her breath through cracks that make coarse the route on which we march to success

I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure.

You are rebirth

Big fish eats small fish

To describe this world is not to describe reality 'in itself', as it is independently of how we regard and describe it.

Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy.

Be neither attracted nor repulsed is the message of Tantric Buddhism. Don't be drawn to something, don't run away from it. Just naturally accept whatever comes into life.

All music is worship. It just depends on what you’re worshipping.

Everyone knows about the substantive issues of concern, like federal health care, but very little is said about the process, the lack of accountability.

The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.

All I know is, I think I would like to continue to do public service.