Think of suffering as being washed.

Your love Should never be offered to the mouth of a Stranger, Only to someone Who has the valor and daring To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife Then weave them into a blanket To protect you.

Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.

I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'

I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

I am in love with every church And mosque And temple And any kind of shrine Because I know it is there That people say the different names Of the One God.

Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.

Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of light...And let it breathe.

This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.

You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.

The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.

Every time you find your attention captured by a poster, your awareness, and perhaps something more, has, if only for a moment, been appropriated without your consent.

The best thing about being famous is that it makes it easier to get laid.

We're like little puppies chasing our tails. We realize we're never getting what we want and then realize we need to do something a bit more profound.

Once you realize you're a spiritual being, you see life so differently. You respect things. You're more responsible to yourself and others.

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.

The day breaks not, it is my heart.

I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.

I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.

Death was Patrick Henry's second choice.