"I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it."

"If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails."

"Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other."

"The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises."

"The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism."

"Knowledge is the gathering of scattered facts; wisdom is the synthesis of lived experience. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning."

"Nobuddy ever fergits where he buried a hatchet."