To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.

Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.

Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.

Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.

Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.

Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.

Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.

The fire of purpose easily melts the icicles of obstacles.

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

If you haven’t though about quitting even once when working on your business, that business is not your real passion.

I must write now and quickly, before I begin to prefer the perfect version that lives in my head.

I think each thing in a way acts as a stepping - stone for whatever the next thing is.

I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. They can interpret it themselves.

Ultimately, suffering is always political with all kinds of justifications - there are those who justify Israel's occupation of land as being a fulfillment of what God had promised.

To know oneself is not necessarily to improve oneself

I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.

Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick.

A great deal remains to be done in Afghanistan and the jury is out as to whether the international community has the commitment and the patience to see the rebuilding process through.

Every once in a while I have this thought, we've got to piss off the religious people. How are we going to do that?