Without alcohol I'd be richer by two million dollars that went to pay lawyer's fees.

You can't make people change, but the organizers of WorldFest hope that people consider being vegetarian for both moral and health reasons

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.

I don't want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe.

When the truth is found to be lies, and all the joy within you dies.

I collect stuffed animals, and toy stores make me happy.

Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing.

When you get older, it's not about what you did that you regret, it's what you didn't do.

It's really a drag to sit around when you're old, and think, 'Ah, gee, I never went to France.' Go to France. Life is very short; you've got to pack it all in there.

Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

To find the good life you must become yourself.

Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.

How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Someone feeling wronged is like someone feeling thirsty. Don’t tell them they aren’t. Sit with them and have a drink.

Care about your children. Just bless them instead of worrying, as every child is the little Buddha who helps his parents to grow up.

In order to begin an analysis, there must already be a synthesis present in the mind.

Some people you speak to you speak into their heads. It's logical.

In today's society, looking good and feeling good often trumps doing good and being good. And some people don't know the difference anymore.

Connection exists. There is immanence and transcendence, and everything beyond and in between. My tradition calls this connection God Herself.