When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends.

People are afraid to spend money now because they dont know how long theyre going to be working.

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

We need to move into a culture of peace. What I hope to promote is the idea that we all need each other and that the greatest happiness in life is not how much we have but how much we give. That's a wealth that's priceless. You can't buy compassion.

I think I was supposed to play jazz.

The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.

A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students' creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves.