I like gardening. I'm really a nature man. I spend as much time as I can in nature. I feel really safe there.
He was a 'how' thinker, not an 'if' thinker.
By doing something positive in this world, you're helping people and the future. We're all trying to help the world. . . make it a better place to live. We're actually still changing the world, aren't we?
I love to play; a stage is a safe place for me to be. It's not that way for most folks, but I'd be lost without it.
Go with your first thoughts; they're usually your best thoughts. Pay attention, stick to your goals and follow those guidelines. It's all right there if you reach for it, unless you want to punch timeclocks and work for somebody. That's what we liked about America, the land of opportunity. All your dreams can come true.
I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year's Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night.
You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad.
Women, healed and whole, will find undreamed resources in themselves.
And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.
I believe in the mystery, and I don't want to take it any further than that. Maybe what I mean by that is love.
In our Ashrams of East and West, places of spiritual retreat, we begin with what we call "The Morning of the Open Heart," in which we tell our needs. . . . We give four or five hours to this catharsis. The reaction of one member, who listened to it for the first time, was: "Good gracious, have we all the disrupted people in the country here?" My reply was: "No, you have a cross section of the church life honestly revealed. " In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to a appear better than we really are.