Leave your thoughtlessness behind you then you may begin to understand. Clear the emptiness around you with the waving of your hand.

Smell the sea and feel the sky.

The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world.

Have I told you lately that I love you, have I told you lately there's no one above you. Fill my heart with gladness, take away all my sadness, ease my troubles, that's what you do.

These are the days of the endless summer, these are the days, the time is now. There is no past, there's only future, there's only here, there's only now.

Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.

You gotta fight every day to keep mediocrity at bay.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Let your soul and spirit fly.

Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.

I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.

The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.

Know your limit and circle of influence

We have to accept that much of reality is ineffable and so to understand it we can't rely on words alone.

Since my little daughter is only half Jewish would it be alright if she went into the pool only up to her waist?

It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain

If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we’d talk to Him all day long.

People only talk about me and sweaters because I don't give them anything else to talk about.

It is when it is contended that "in a democracy right is what the majority makes it to be" that democracy degenerates into demagoguery.

When the pursuit of natural harmony is a shared journey, great heights can be attained.

It's the bully who is insecure.