I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.

It's been a long time coming. But I know a change is gonna come

It’s been too hard living, but I’m afraid to die. ‘Cause I don’t know what’s up there, beyond the sky.

There been times when I thought I couldn't last for long But now I think I'm able to carry on It's been a long, been a long time coming But I know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will

I was born by the river, in a little tent, and just like the river I've been running ever since.

Another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody.

Shakin' like a bowl of soup and make your body loop-de-loop.

Don't know much about history, don't know much biology, don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took.

You know, I'll always be your slave 'til I'm buried, buried in my grave.

If I could just touch the hem of His garment I know I'll be made whole

Man, if I was back home, I'd be swinging with two chicks on my arms.

We did phenomenally well with young people. I think we did well with working class people.

Peace is the result of love, and if love were easy we'd all be good at it.

One thing worse than self-hatred is chiggers.

if you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants-in-the-pants of faith. They keep it alive and moving.

You have a chance to move in far better society than the Joneses. Why worry about keeping up with the Joneses? Keep up with the Angels and you'll be far wiser and happier.

Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

How can you hope to build up a nation by fragmenting its politics into opposing camps? Whatever one group builds, the other will endeavour to destroy.

All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade.

The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.