All music is important if it comes from the heart.

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.

You can believe whatever you will, as long as you realize: it was your decision!

When intelligence shuts a door, wisdom opens a window.

No one is accountable anymore for anything.

At the top of the list of what makes a successful marriage, is a sense of humor.

There is only one reality: the act of feeling ourselves in the process of making choices.

In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.

Have I done something for the general interest? Well then I have had my reward. Let this always be present to thy mind, and never stop doing such good.

If your neighbor looks at you like they don't enjoy the key you're singing in, look right back, bless them, and keep on singing.

A man who behaves poorly in a Community will not do well in a parish.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.