Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

I went to a church where you could not sing out loud in the service until you had been saved

Let's all start wearing bolo ties, and when they become hip again, we'll all say we were kidding.

I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal.

You create your luck by being healthy and not regretting the past or being anxious about the future.

A farmer once told me one of the greatest luxuries of his life was to wake up early only to go back to sleep again.

For me, being transparent about every aspect of my life is what makes my music relatable and how I'm able to be an individual amongst the mass amounts of other artists.

His whole aspect was that of a man who has unexpectedly been struck by lightning.

Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage.

Everybody's got to do what they've got to do.