It's human nature - we want to believe our children, our families, our President!

The reality is, we can change. We can change ourselves. We can change our minds. We can change our hearts. And therefore the universe changes.

I don't regret anything. Everything happens for a reason-it's part of the healing process. Life is a healing process.

Always walk towards open doors. And if they slam shut in your face, kick that sucker in and keep going.

I can’t remember that I was ever looking for anything. I was waiting for something to touch me. It’s like, I’ll be open to it, and see if it moves me. There has to be a "falling in love" moment.

In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.

Everyone responds to kindness.

There are times when telling lies are not a bad thing. It can be a compassionate thing. But to make it benign, you have to be aware of your compassionate reasons for telling that lie.

I'm younger than I once was. Internally. Less self-conscious. Less insecure.

I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.

People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory.

Life is a great grace.

Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military.

The reason I do interviews is because I'm protecting my songs.

The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.

But you can't stop at one, you wanna drink another woman!

My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather.

Self-doubt is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Today just 400 Americans have more wealth than half of all Americans combined.

Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.

The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.