To be an American is to be part of the world because America, all the people of the world come to America.

One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.

Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.

Sweet music, and your secret heart. Both have the healing grace.

Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies.

We receive all we venture to give. And one of the things I've learned over the years is that giving is everything, and taking is nothing.

You are the reason. If you want, you are the answer in the end.

We are all in Christs energy. We are all in the divine plan. We are all on the sacred journey, if you want to put it into some very spiritual words. And I like to sing about it, so thats what I do.

It is just a wonderful, wonderful time to be alive and to be able to be part of the ever-growing spiritual awareness that is happening around the world.

Sweet songs of youth, the wise, the meeting of all wisdom To believe in the good in man.

This state of independence shall be!

Literature is the real life of imaginary people.

Love your children—and let them know you love them. Children who experience love find it far easier to believe God loves them.

Because now, the magic is everywhere.

Is there any creature on earth as unfortunate as an ugly woman? (wonders Lady Catelyn Stark)

Envy, bleating 'I'm as good as you', is the hotbed of Fascism.

You find God the moment you realize that you don't need to seek God

I believe that all the important people in my life prior to 1982 were victimized by my illness

Every good teaching may still end up producing evil bandits who have no principles whatsoever, an outcome even more likely when the teacher is also a bandit.

Life is improvisation. All of those [improv] classes were like church to me. The training had seeped into me and changed who I am.