You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

Action is the antidote to despair.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come.

Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Each day is filled with beautiful splendid.

I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism.

My real journey had very little to do with traveling Europe, and a whole lot to do with traveling my own mind.

Ever since the invention of the camera, people have been trying to create 3D, because we see things in 3D, and everyone's aware that the camera doesn't.

If you want to be at peace, you have to be clear about your intetion and - moment by moment - in alignment with your intention

Men gossip less than women, but mean it.

Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.

I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings