Life is one long jubilee.

A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.

I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man- Who could ask for anything more?

One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

What usually comes first is the contract.

But the age of miracles hadn't passed.

Holding hands at midnight 'Neath a starry sky... Nice work if you can get it And you can get it -- if you try.

I'm bidin' my time, 'Cause that's the kinda guy I'm.

The future of this nation, with the present generation, You must admit is nothing but a joke

Love is sweeping the country.

Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you’re afraid of them.

The great fault of logic is that it seems so reasonable, even when it is not.

Happiness happiness ... the flavor is with you-with you alone and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.

If God came in and said "I want you to be happy for the rest of your life " what would you do?

Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.

My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.

If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up.

I was writing music for the sake of writing music; it was just fun.

We played in an era where you were taught to hate your opponent. But life changes. I raise my kids differently than my mom and dad raised their kids.

[Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly likeable as a good fellow, but impossible as a man of letters.