Everyone has his own imagination of God. It is best if everyone is left to his own imagination.

Stand through life firm as a rock in the sea, undisturbed and unmoved by its ever-rising waves

Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful.

Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own.

Our virtues are made by love, and our sins are caused by the lack of it.

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.

When I open my eyes to the outer world I feel myself as a drop in the sea. But when I close my eyes and look within, I see the whole universe as a bubble raised in the ocean of my heart.

Love is the merchandise which all the world demands; if you store it in your heart, every soul will become your customer.

Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence.

God breaks the heart again and again and again until it stays open.

To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.

If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.

I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am.

In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.

The only thing that frightens me a little is when I'm called Kevin rather than Fred, but that's how people have known me for so many years. So, I can't really blame them.

Specific music starts feeding my imagination and gives me a landscape that corresponds somehow, in some abstract way, to the world I'm just starting to imagine.

I've arranged with my executor to be buried in Chicago. Because when I die, I want to still remain active politically.

Go without hate, but not without rage. Heal the world.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

I just try to be as honest and open as possible with all my music, whether it's live shows or the studio.