There's the historical part of The Beach Boys' music; it's pretty incredible, pretty vast and pretty varied too.

During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate go down to a level of rest, twice that of deep sleep.

There are different things one can do to establish and hasten the peace process. Meditation is one way.

I'm the lead singer of the Beach Boys and an ambassador of this amazing music that touched a generation.

I learned that when you do the best job that you can do, some people will idolize you, others won't care, and some will vilify you.

You can't sustain a fan base on a great catalog alone. You must take your music directly to the people.

Mankind invents things to fight about.

You have to be careful not to get overexposed.

The great thing about getting older is that you get a chance to tell the people in your life who matter what they mean to you.

The problem with popularity is that if it gets too popular everybody leaves and goes somewhere else.

The history of mankind is a history of war.

What harm does lying cause? One loses people’s trust. And once one loses trust, he becomes worthless.

Those who have actually experienced daily fellowship with Christ know that it surpasses all worldly activities.

Forgiveness is not an invitation to become a doormat for other people's hypocrisy.

What you have to do with your mind, when your body is miserable, is to make it think of something else.

I have no desire to be a lead actor or anything. I was offered things and occasionally something comes along, but for the most part I'm pretty much, "You've got to be joking, right?"

I need to remember to overcome.

Quality doesn't mean we have to be 100 percent better in any one thing; it means we strive to be 1 percent better in 100 things.

95% of being a success is just showing up on time and being there. I don't know how I knew that when I was younger. You have to stick around for people to remember you.

Expand the mind, seek and you shall find.

How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.