Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

The living are just the dead on holiday

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

I told Jerome I will ring Egg every day because he’s my pal and not because I want him back in the band to write our second album. - Clipper

Labels are devices for saving talkative persons the trouble of thinking.

Memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also for what it reveals.

I'm not a hero or a superstar. I'm an everyday guy. I feel happy when children approach me. I feel that something good is happening in life when little kids recognise me.

A light exists in Spring Not present in the year at any other period When March is scarcely here.

No man can give me any word but Wait.

Manic depression is a frustratin' mess.

Now, playing a love interest can be really thrilling, if you're working opposite thrilling people.

My first big show was with Tim McGraw and Mark Chesnutt, and that was overwhelming. There was probably 25,000 people there. I was nervous, (but it) was exhilarating.

...a disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something coherent from conflicting elements to fit rapidly changing settings.