When we awaken to our truth, we realize we are free.

We can change our own life and ultimately change the world.

Hey you —All our fevered history won't instill insight, won't turn a body conscious, won't make that look in the eyes say yes, though there is nothingto solve even as each moment is an answer.

I begin to be impatient of solitude - to feel its draperies hang sweltering, unwholesome about me.

If you know people who are suicidal, or if you know people who are bipolar, depressed, have panic attack disorder, just be there for them. They're going through something that's very, very hard.

You should support Israel not because it is Jewish but because it is a sane, secular democracy. You want Lebanon to be at peace. You don't care much about Kuwait.

There needn't be a distinction between your life and your music.

Because of the person I am I won't be knocked down — ever. They can say I'm fat, I'm thin, I'm whatever, and I'll never stop. I just won't. I've got too much to do. I've too much to be happy about.

The first cut is the deepest.

You know what love is? It is all kindness, generosity.

The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.

One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man...It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of human history as one consistent process.