Well, your whole life is like a checkerboard and there's a sense that you get, especially looking back on it, that you begin to realize and gain awareness that there's something else moving all of these pieces around in your life, and that was really true for me right from the very beginning.

Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.

You can't just have a thought. You have to follow the thought through. But everything starts with the thought.

Don't die with your music still in you. Don't die with your purpose unfulfilled. Don't die feeling as if your life has been wrong. Don't let that happen to you.

When you stop needing more of everything, more of what you desire seems to arrive in your life.

Beautiful thoughts build a beautiful soul. ...There's always something beautiful to be experienced wherever you are.

If you still are growing, you go through the archetype of the statesman or stateswoman. You stop asking "What are my quotas?" and stop saying "What is in it for me?" and "How much can I get?" You begin to say, instead, "What are your quotas?" and, "How may I serve?" Providing for others becomes much more important in your life than what you can get for yourself.