Michael Jackson (1958-2009)

Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.

Confucius (551 BC-479 BC)

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986)

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Buddha (c.500 BC)

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Lady Gaga

So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.

Ralph Nadar

The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.

Paramhansa Yogananda (1893-1952)

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Hsu Yun (1840-1959)

« The best way is just to observe the noise of the world. The answer to your questions? Ask your heart. » ~Hsu Yun

Robert Bly

By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

Charles M. Schulz

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.

Eleanor Rooseveldt (1884-1962)

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Mickey Hart

When the Grateful Dead needed a quality sound system to deliver our sonic payload, I learned electronics and speaker design.

Bill Cosby

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Rene Magritte (1898-1967)

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.

Carl Perkins (1932-1998)

If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.

Timothy Leary (1920-1996)

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

Eddie Van Halen

There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.

John Cage (1912-1992)

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970)

The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)

That other one wanted to think his way to life,
Sure that the ultimate poem was the mind,
Or of the mind, or of the mind in these
Elysia, these days, half earth, half mind;

Anne Landers (1918-2002)

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Richard Bach

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

Larry Hagman (1931-2012)

My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car.

Will Smith

The first step is you have to say that you can.

L.L. Cool J

You can't let your past hold your future hostage.

Lady GaGa

I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.

Yousou N'Dour

Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.

Yo Yo Ma

Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

Lou Reed (1942-2013)

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Sonny Rollins

I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is just using up all of our natural resources like a bunch of insane people. That's what I worry about more than I worry about jazz.

Bruce Springsteen

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.

Kenny G

I've learned that you simply can't control those bad vibes.

Wayne Dyer

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

Louis L'Amour (1908-1988)

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

Scott Hamilton

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.

Francois Rabelais (1493-1553)

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

Cat Stevens

Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.

Al Pacino

It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.

William Arthur Ward (1921-1994)

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

Buddha (568 BC- 483 BC)

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Amelia Earhart (1897-1938)

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.

R.D. Lang (1927-1989)

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

Bob Dylan

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

William James (1842-1910)

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

James Caan

I think we have to believe in things we don't see. That's really important for all of us, whether it's your religion or Santa Claus, or whatever. That's pretty much what it's about.

Franz Kafka (1883-1921)

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Mother Teresa (1910-`1997)

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Gene Hackman

The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.

Carl Jung (1875-1961)

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.