To really enjoy pleasures, you must know how to leave them.
The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart
Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It's a decision.
Everything is a battlefield. If you fight with anger, you are part of the problem. If you fight with joy, you're part of the solution.
There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.
There's a fine line between writing the poem and the poem writing itself. You have to be there and not be there, too.
Facing facts is always empowering.
It's very important for any artist, in any field, to take their own temperature and check out their own energy, and see what it is they ought to be doing to keep the energy up. Because if your energy is not up, you're going to come up with some really dreary piece of work that no one's going to enjoy.
Without going outside, you may know the whole world, without looking through the window, you may see the ways of heaven. The farther you go, the less you know. Thus the sage knows without traveling; he sees without looking; he works without doing.