And Quotes

The main thing I look at is: Is it from the heart? If I know that you down with me, then we always gonna be down through whatever the thick and thin.

To me there is nothing more sacred than love and laughter, and there is nothing more prayerful than playfulness.

Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed

If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.

In the depth of the soul is the atman, the oversoul. And that oversoul is really love and compassion, peace, joy, and wisdom.

Beirut is where I was born and raised.

It's hard to move on when you can see too many good possibilities or any kind of possibility really. That's something that always kind of slows me down and can be a bad place to be in.

We sing with the entire body. The sounds that we make emanate not just from the head, but from the whole heart and soul, and, most important, the gut.

When you are in Joy, you are compassionate. When you are in Joy, you are considerate and caring.

Possessing the ability to turn the bathtub faucet on and off with your toes.

The three eldest children of Necessity: God, the World and love.

...I am not attacking any particular God or gods. I am attacking God, all gods, anything and everything supernatural, whenever or wherever they have been or will be invented.

Both criticism and praise is part of putting yourself out there.

As Americans, we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility.

You can hear the Celtic heartbeat all over Europe and America, from Bing Crosby to Jack White, from the Smiths to My Bloody Valentine, from House of Pain to Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.

Kids today don't watch a black and white movie.

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.

Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.

[when asked about what he was most thankful about]: Being alive. After heart surgery, you dig that part. Breath, family and friends are just amazing. Just to have a second shot is pretty great!

Now we have blacks and whites fighting, reds and yellows fighting, Democrats and Republicans fighting, men and women fighting.

Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.

Journeys bring power and love back into you. If you can't go somewhere, move in the passageways of the self. They are like shafts of light, always changing, and you change when you explore them.

Be wild and crazy and drunk with Love, if you are too careful, LOVE will not find you.

A lifetime without Love is of no account Love is the Water of Life Drink it down with heart and soul!

All is going well so far. There are some remarks here and there and there are some complaints here and there but we expect to resolve those questions or complaints Sunday and the next day.

God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.

If we cut speed and relax with what’s going on in our life right now, kindness and patience will naturally come about.

Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday.

The only trick was never giving more that you were willing to lose.

I love Australia. My dream would be to have a place to live there and be able to commute back and forth

If you conduct yourself with peace love and compassion, then you are God.

Do not think about the body. The body comes and goes; for it there is birth and there is death. But you are not the body. Body is just rust and dust. Think only of God. Love God.

I like being scared every now and then, I like the suspense and the thrills. Nothing like taking a girlfriend to a movie and holding her hand while she jumps.

I have to make decisions that people are a little confused about, in a way, and I just express the appreciation, admiration and respect I have. I just try to be the best I can, but I'm human.

The Glory is the issue to me. Money comes and goes, but a legacy stays forever. I hate to lose

Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture.

I had an Aston Martin phone worth ?15,000 given to me as a present. I dropped it in a gin and tonic about 15 seconds after opening it.

I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?

I only watch National Geographic Channel, and also I have the app on my phone. Im into astronomy and love to learn about new facts.

The easiest way to do art is to dispense with success and failure altogether and just get on with it.

We can't all come and go by bubble!

In my house there's this light switch that doesn't do anything. Every so often, I would flick it on and off just to check. Yesterday, I got a call from a woman in Germany. She said 'cut it out'

I know there are people who believe you should forgive and forget. For the record, I'd like to say I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I'm given the opportunity to get even first.

On both difficult and easy terrain, you must know the 'tenable' and 'fatal' ground. Occupy tenable ground and attack on fatal ground.

I started to try to be a colorist, although secretly thinking of myself as somewhat of a black and whiteist.

They got how many trillions of dollars in gold and silver and jewelry and art and real estate and stained glass and they're passing the basket on Sunday so they can get the tomato farmers' donation?

There's no black and white dividing line between a mild Aspergers, which is the mild autism, and computer engineer, for example.

You see people swimming, and you think, oh, how wonderful to swim. But most people stand on the edge swaying back and forth, afraid to jump. They don't think they can swim.

This is a time that calls for extreme restraint. In a world of outright aggression and violence there can be no winners. To respond to violence with counter-violence only throws oil on the fire.

The derision comes from snobbery, which I think is the worst thing for art and music. I don't think there's any place for it and it comes from insecurity.