the suppression of war is not the equivalent of peace.

It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.

The worst danger of the mystic is as always a quest of spiritual privilege leading to aloofness from the common lot.

Luxury, like a minimum wage, is a relationship; it changes as we change.

An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys.

war to win peace is at best a dangerously illogical method.

Reality, like beauty, is in relationship and there only.

I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns

Teaching yoga is the only thing I can do. I can't imagine not doing it. I love it because I believe in it.

I think there's no purpose for writing music if it is not meaningful.

I had the urge to examine my life in another culture and move beyond what I knew.

Pain didn't ever really stop, he thought; it just changed forms.

Your vocation lies in the intersection of the world's deep need and your deep joy.

When you look at life retrospectively you rarely regret anything that you did, but you might regret things that you didn't do.

We ought at all times to be very careful that high-mindedness shall never have place in our hearts.

It's wonderful to be alive and to walk on earth.

I'm a musician - I'm always making music. Kobe Bryant is always playing ball. Well, Snoop Dogg is always recording.