"Choose your counsel, company and companions wisely: beware seeking wise words of advice from a fool or expecting informed opinions or decisions from the ignorant."

"Triumphs are usually the outcomes of countless learned-from 'failures."

"You cannot pour more water into a full cup without causing a spillage."

"Take a walk outside - it will serve you far more than pacing around in your mind."

"Gratitude is the best food to start and sustain you. Hankering creates hunger, unhappiness, bellyache, headache and heartache - and often leaves a bitter taste."

"You may wonder why so many of my quotes - and all my work - is about love, compassion and inner peace? Because life is nothing, empty, bereft without these things."

"Some strive to make themselves great. Others help others see and find their own greatness. It's the latter who really enrich the world we live in."

"Strive to enrich all lives, hearts and minds not just your own pockets."

"In the long run most short cuts are flawed - especially on journeys to 'so-called' success."

"Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy..."

"It's is not just a question of doing what you love for a living. It is a matter of doing what you love with love. Then your life and all lives will be transformed."

"It's not the world that needs to change - it's our consciousness we must raise."

"If you have a big ego put it to wide and wise use so that it benefits and enriches everyone not just you."

"The magic, grace, growth and wonder of life is that wisdom follows a fall and defeat not from a win."

"Despair and disappointment are the parent of countless inspired, inspiring, triumphant creations."

"The true measure of your success is the degree to which within you are truly content - and the depth to which others hold you with real love and respect."

"We're merely one tree with various types, shapes and sizes of leaves that all wave differently in the breeze."

"A few simple tips for life: feet on the ground, head to the skies, heart open...quiet mind."

"If you must walk in someone's shadow make sure it's your own."

"Until you understand your customers - deeply and genuinely - you cannot hope to serve them."

"In life one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day - or to celebrate each special day."

"Only the foolish would think that wisdom is something to keep locked in a drawer. Only the fearful would feel empowerment is something best kept to oneself, or the few, and not shared with all."

"Music is energy, emotion, expression, escapism, enlightenment. Music is so much more than just entertainment."

"It's is not enough just to follow your heart. Use it in every breath and in each step. Meet and greet everyone with it. Put it into all you do, every dish you eat and all you create. Then your life and those of those you come into contact with will be truly rich - beyond material and transient things."

"Too much time is wasted fighting one self and life itself. Peace and fulfilment emerge the moment you embrace both."

"Nothing in life is a foregone conclusion unless and until it is foregone and concluded."

"What people say and feel about you when you've left a room is precisely your job while you are in it."

"The greatest gift you can give (yourself or anyone else) is just being present."

"See and live life for the wonderful gift that it is ...acknowledging everyone's beauty, flaws, frailty, strength, gifts and possibilities. Honour and cherish it and above be loving and compassionate. Here is the birthplace of inner and worldly peace."

"Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre."

"Tomorrow's leaders will not lead dictating from the front, nor pushing from the back. They will lead from the centre - from the heart."

"Funny how money speaks even more loudly than morals in this beautiful, superficial material world."

"Until you are clear nothing will be. The moment you are clear everything will be."

"The pathway to enlightenment, transformation and liberation is the heart not the mind."

"The mind will enchain yourself, others or both. Your heart will set you / them free."

"One of the fascinating things about our lives - and minds - is that tend to spend years wishing and wanting others and the world around to see in us that which we ourselves do not appreciate fully."

"All hate is hurt, all compassion is understanding."

"We love music deeply, but why? Put simply: music makes lives, shapes lives, expresses all shades and stages of life - and even saves lives."

"The stiller you are the calmer life is."

"I've no interest in being thought provoking. Who needs more thoughts. I'd rather go down as one who is thought disposing."

"You are what resides before, beyond and between what you think so do not be consumed by thought. It is only a fragment of your magic."

"The degree of your mindset will confine you - just as the breadth of your open-heartedness will set you free."

"Nothing has value without self worth."

"Life will teach or beat you all you need to know. My advice take the compassionate class and peaceful path."

"Any fool can break something, criticise someone and tear things apart. It takes a far more skilled, wise and kind soul to build something, nurture someone, fix things and help others thrive over time."

"Your brand is the value and magic that's not in your bottle, body or box. It's the inspiration, incense, intent and impact before, within and beyond."

"Always let your talent do the talking. Never your tantrums."

"Legacy is not what's left tomorrow when you're gone. It's what you give, create, impact and contribute today while you're here that then happens to live on."

"There is no question- love is the answer."

"Sometimes you learn, grow and give far more when your back's against the wall."