If you can't get out of something, get into it.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.

If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.

I'd trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday.

Johnny Cash was the champion of the voiceless, the underdogs and the downtrodden. He was also something of a holy terror, like Abraham Lincoln with a wild side. He represented the best of America.

I've been a radical for a long time. I guess it's too bad. I'd be more marketable as a right-wing redneck.

The only reality is in the moment. What you are doing counts.

Gordon Lightfoot has created some of the most beautiful and lasting music of our time. He is Bob Dylan's favorite singer/songwriter - high praise from the best of us, applauded by the rest of us.

I don't think I've gotten any smarter, but your reflexes slow down before you do something stupid when you're older.

The number-one rule of the road is never go to bed with anyone crazier than yourself. You will break this rule, and you will be sorry.

In God's eyes, we're all the same.

Success is the moon and happiness is moonlight.

He grinned at me and whispered, “I’m going to kiss you now. It’ll be a big one, so don’t hit me.

If fighting for a cause and for one's right is an indication of aggressiveness then I am proud to be aggressive - you all are free to hate me.

A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.

Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.

I've always stayed pretty fit. I felt I needed to give myself energy by exercising and things like that.

We should always measure a government's environmental rhetoric against its environmental record

Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have turned it upside down and told the stories from the other point of view.

He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless.