"As someone who has faced as much disappointment as most people, I've come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way."

"We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm."

"Anytime you try to be a loving person, you're doing your part to save the world."

"You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us."

"I am very proud of The Saints and I'm very glad that I've been associated with them all these years, but the next record is the best record... has to be the philosophy for any band that remains even halfway decent or vibrant, and that is kind of where my head's at."

"Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own."

"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same."

"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe."