Market society is a game where you win by making sure other people are better off with you than without you.

If your main goal is to show that your heart is in the right place, then your heart is not in the right place.

If you’re trying to prove your heart is in the right place, it isn’t.

There's nothing I like better than a good book discussion with someone who can hold up his end of the argument.

And you would have lost. We were surrounded. He threatened your life, and he would have made good on that threat. He had you, and that meant he had me, too.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

If you vanquish ego-clinging today, tonight you will be enlightened.

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.

I think loss can fuel how you lead your whole life.

Love has the quality of informing almost everything - even one's work.

My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is.