A joyous person abounds with energy and feels buoyant, because he or she is running a higher frequency current of energy through his or her system.

Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.

The opposite of love is not hate. It is fear.

Humbleness, forgiveness, clarity and love are the dynamics of freedom. They are the foundations of authentic power.

Please... tell me who you are and what you want. And if you think those are simple questions, keep in mind that most people live their entire lives without arriving at an answer.

A power struggle collapses when you withdraw your energy from it. Power struggles become uninteresting to you when you change your intention from winning to learning about yourself.

The amount of stress in your life is determined by how much energy you expend resisting your life.

Reverence is an attitude of honoring life. Reverence automatically brings forth patience. Reverence permits non-judgemental justice. Reverence is a perception of the soul.

Changing the world begins with the very personal process of changing yourself, the only place you can begin is where you are, and the only time you can begin is always now.

What is behind your eyes holds more power than what is in front of them.

Your experiences are not limited to what you have created in the past

For if I do something, I never do it thoughtlessly.

... Don't feel bad about crying. Ever.

We cry for ourselves, don't we? Not for the dead. The dead are past caring.

And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny.

There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye.

A sister is both your mirror - and your opposite.

If I could, I would live in Houston, and I would encourage any comic starting out looking for a good place to develop to move there.

Male religion entombs women in sepulchres of silence in order to chant its own eternal and dreary dirge to a past that never was.

I write a column for The Village Voice, which I've done since time immemorial, and occasionally - and books. And I occasionally write minor notes for record albums and occasional articles.

That song helped make me a world citizen. It allowed me to live, work and sing in any city on the globe. It changed my whole life.