Good thinking brings good feeling and good feeling brings good thinking.

People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, 'OK, I've done it all,' but for me, it was a new beginning.

Got your mind set on a dream, you can get it though how hard it may seem.

Rome was not built in a day Opposition will come your way But the harder the battle you see It's the sweeter the victory

I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.

I love to create and that's what gives my soul the satisfaction.

And I keep on fighting for the things I want. Though I know that when you're dead you can't. But I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave.

In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.

I've done a lot of things to become what I've become, out to create and establish a musical form and I call it movie.

Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that.

Beyond everything else, that's one of the things that kept us going, that keeps me going, you know, the eternal love, knowing that I am in the love of the all and all love is in me.

Home they brought her warrior dead.

Myself, first of all, I am a Jew. And that is the most important thing for me.

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

All of my friends are my age and we are all ageing at the same time. We talk about it and moan, but it doesn't bother me.

I've learned that you only become as creative as you possibly can by staying independent.

Even though the National Guard and Army Reserve see combat today, it rankles me that people assume it was some kind of waltz in the park back then.

Bought all the Beatle records, I sounded just like Paul.

Soldiers! Here is the battle you have so long desired! Henceforth victory depends on you; we have need of it.

I don't like being lied to.

Those are the two things: a sense of loving and being loved, and being creative - that is what life is made up of, and what literature reminds us of.