The best #‎ gift we can give in any interaction is to leave people feeling lighter, #‎ happier , and more at #‎ peace .

The beauty of love is that in giving it away, you are left with more than you had before.

Awakening into love is a lifelong path.

The drug war is a holocaust in slow motion.

A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.

Every day, human beings are worth less. That's the triumph of capitalism. The money gets made, and the fewer people we need to make that money.

People from here will often say, "I'm not from the United States, I'm from New Orleans."

To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally.

Genuine inner freedom is the ultimate aim of life. It is the unspoken goal of every thought you have and every action you take.

Life is too short to carry the burden of a heavy heart. It does not serve you or anyone else. Free yourself through the power of forgiveness and compassion.

It is your birthright to have a life of meaning and purpose. Whether or not the people in your life have consistently celebrated your incarnation, you deserve to celebrate your existence.

When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.

The sword of the Spirit—the Bible—is the weapon God has provided for us to use in this battle between truth and deception. Make it a priority to wield that sword skillfully.

If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.

When you're teaching a hard concept and the students all have puzzled looks on their faces and then suddenly you can see that 'aha' moment, that they got it, that's just an incredible thing.

Happiness is not something that you pursue; it is something that you allow. Happiness is just being.

You throw thorns, falling in my silence they become flowers.

I don't think there's any shortage of tough, sometimes vicious rhetoric about President Barack Obama coming from the right. Talk radio shows dominated by conservatives.

Anybody can be a hellene, by his heart, his mind, his spirit.

You probably became a musicians because you're into it so stay that way. Don't believe that someone else has the golden ticket for you because they don't.

I'm still experimenting.