Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.

There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.

Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.

One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart

Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It's a decision.

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

Everything is a battlefield. If you fight with anger, you are part of the problem. If you fight with joy, you're part of the solution.

Music rearranges your molecular structure.

My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

Arrange your life in such a way that you don't make choices based on fear of God, instead of love of God.

The present is the now the here through which all future plunges to the past.

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

Don't try to prove anything about yourself to anyone. It isn't necessary. Your worth shines through to others- know your worth.

You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.

There is a time to deliberate... and a time to act. Learn to recognize which is which, and act accordingly.

Famous like a drug that I've taken too much of but I never ever trip, just peace, happiness and love.

Extremism in defense of liberty is not a vice, but I denounce political extremism, of the left or the right, based on duplicity, falsehood, fear, violence and threats when they endanger liberty.

Ceremonies are the outworks of manners.

To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.