Reality has a long history of not altering itself to make us happy or comfortable.

When we are honest, we admit how agreeable it can feel to be singled out for favored treatment. The biggest barrier to equality for all is that inequality for some feels good.

There’s danger in thinking joy is a matter of location. If we can’t find joy where we are, we probably won’t find it anywhere.

There are things we see with our eyes, sitting high and looking out. And there are things we see with our hearts, sitting still and looking in.

In the end . . . . . . . Stand where we feel led. Stand straight, stand tall, and try to remember that other folks might be led to stand elsewhere.

Write letters to your grandmother. She will love it. And leave you money in her will.

When love takes you by the hand and leaves you better, that is home. That's the place to stake your claim and build your life.

Love, even that love which is imagined, is sometimes all we have to get us through.

We just never know. We think we do. We think we have life figured out, and in our arrogance we become hard. But life has a way of humbling us, of softening us.

There is a certain transcendent joy in creating a thing of beauty. But even more fulfilling is to become a being of beauty.

For some folks death is release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them.

I am a monk at heart - a scientist at brain - a philosopher at conscience.

It seems like everything sleeps in winter, but it's really a time of renewal and reflection.

Don't do anything that goes against your conscience, even if your country says so.

I really love peace and quiet.

The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.

I am not very tough with raising my children, but you can argue that to be more tough will help your children.

The Grail is the womb of the beloved.

Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.

Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.