In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.

If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.

The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.

We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.

The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity.

We're all just walking each other home.

As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You’re not thinking about loving; you’re just being love, radiating like the sun.

I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are

If you want to cure the world, don't emanate fear - emanate love.

The pursuit and preservation of purity can drive prejudice and hate. Many crimes against humanity have been committed in its name. Purity is best applied to water.

Industry executives sacrificed art for what sells and mega-stars now saturate the market with the same tired lyrics.

I'm wearing a new perfume that I should recommend to the women in the audience; it's called 'Tester.

None thrives for long upon the happiest dream.

I look for a good story. Usually the best stories are the ones that are unbelievably true. 'Soul Surfer' is one of those stories.

One time. In 1965. August, for about an hour, I was both fine AND dandy at the same time. But nobody asked me how I was.

Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.

Creative work only seems like a magic trick to people who don't understand that it's ultimately still work.

Whatever else is happening, things are better in the sun.

One step at a time is enough for me. Impatience is simply a way of beating yourself up.