With life as short as a half-taken breath, don't plant anything but love.

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.

Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love

I LOVE my friends neither with my heart nor with my mind. Just in case... HEART might stop. MIND can forget. I Love them with my Soul. SOUL never stops or forgets.

Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that God has sent everyone else away so that there is only you and Him.

Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart.

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

It's your road & yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you

Last night I begged the Wise One to tell me the secret of the world. Gently, gently, he whispered, "Be quiet, the secret cannot be spoken, It is wrapped in silence."

Selflessness is humility. ... humility and freedom go hand in hand. Only a humble person can be free.

Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you

I don't want people to get the impression that I just got money and now I'm cocky, because I'm not. I'm just a little overly confident.

I am a Christian which means that I believe in the deity of Christ, like Tycho de Brahe, Copernicus, Descartes, Newton, Leibnitz, Pascal… like all great astronomers mathematicians of the past.

And so my child and I came to this place to meet him eye to eye and face to face. He made my daughter laugh, then we embraced. We never knew what friends we had, until we came to Leningrad.

I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make.

Every bad decision I've made has been based on money.

If Im healthy, that comes across on camera.

Kitten, when did you get so tall? (Ravyn) I grew while you were in the bathroom. (Erika)

One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.