Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument, fulfilling God's desperate intent that we love each other.

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.

The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.

God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.

Revolutionaries don't get job security.

The world has improved mostly because unorthodox people did unorthodox things. Not surprisingly, they had the courage and daring to think they could make a difference.

Art is in the process of redefining our relationships to each other ... The creative minds are bubbling, bubbling, and I know the soup that's coming up next time is going to feed a lot more of us.

You meet all kinds of people that help put life in perspective and turn the horror into some kind of lesson or avenue of awakening that lives with you all your days.

Among whom the gods bless, high on the list are the music people, who tune into celestial vibe-brations and give mortals a taste of immortal sensations.

The divorce rate would be lower if instead of marrying for better or worse people would marry for good.

Classism and greed are making insignificant all the other kinds of isms.

Legends had been written about less.

Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, and love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.

In its 400 years of existence, storytellers never evolved the book as a storytelling device.

Sometimes I will tweet an interview I have coming up and ask my followers what questions they have for the celebrity. I feel that way I can really know first hand what people want to hear answered.

Everything that is exquisite hides itself.

Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings, of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home. He has found the treasure which was hidden in his own being.

There is a frantic race to merchandise tinsel and trash under the guise of 'modernism.'

Only a well-oiled machine runs smoothly.

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.