We have as Americans a right to be here, and we also have a responsibility to build bridges of reconciliation with the families of those who died on 11 September.

Peace can happen in 24 hours....just like war can happen in 24 hours.

I don't want to be normal. I want to be something else.

Before the Beatles, songwriters were very anonymous people and nobody paid any attention to them.

One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record.

Yes, there truly is a joy to giving.

When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.

In adverse hours the friendship of the good shines most; each prosperous day commands its friends.

Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is rotting under the ground.

The rich are different than you and me: they have more money and they have more power.

Relax and calm your mind. Forget about yourself and follow your opponent's movement.