Glad that I live am I; That the sky is blue; Glad for the country lanes, And the fall of dew.

To hear that your neighbor was worse off than yourself was not an altogether unpleasant experience.

The old faiths light their candles all about, but burly Truth comes by and puts them out.

For poetry, more than any other art, except music, has a compelling hold upon the spiritual side of life.

The sun pours out like wine.

A child without an acquaintance of some kind with a classic of literature ... suffers from that impoverishment for the rest of his life. No later intimacy is like that of the first.

I wonder at the idleness of tears.

In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry.

If there is one sin—or rather one waste—it is not doing what you have the inclination or gift for.

When you step up to being excellent, use hard work and determination as the powerful force they are. By also being devoted and persistent, over time it will reward you with sparkling success.

When we choose to live a heart-centered life, we've chosen to live in the Light.

Oh, man, why is this the life? Why is it? Why is one rich and the other poor? Why is one black and the other white?

I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type.

Sometimes when I look back on myself on those earlier records, there was so much effort going in, so much trying. With this, I was trying to make it much more laid back.

It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.

Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an opera. The whole of reality itself has become the object of art.

You can't get bored of winning. You can win 10 games in a row but you keep the same will to snatch the 11th. You always need more.