Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender

There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

If a tree bears sweet fruit, birds have many reasons to visit it.

It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth.

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

The one thing the terrorists cannot do -- not one of them, not 10 of them, not 10,000 of them -- they cannot change who we are.

My close proximity to many of the newsmakers can give me a different perspective about people in politics and what they might say than others who don't know them.

If you have a ton of counterpoints, complex harmony, all these tricky things going on, it makes things less accessible to people.

It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.

I think my entire songwriting catalog reflects where I was in my life at the time. I capture whatever moment I am experiencing in life.