“Religion is for those who are scared of hell, and spirituality is for those who have been there.”

“I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.”

“I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.”

“I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.”

“Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.”

“Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”