The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Adventure is worthwhile.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Amazingly, my impatience didn’t speed up the procession at all.

A worship of truth can be idolatry if the truth is small enough.

I was so used to doing old blues licks with the first three fingers. When I started using my pinky and finding more spread things, that's when I started getting my own style.

I believe in women, especially thinking women.

Even the lucky ones, who do manage to become happy by attaining their goals, live each day in fear of losing whatever it is they may have gained.

My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.

Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered.

The trouble with bucket seats is that not everybody has the same size bucket.

When you represent the state of Washington, we have a tradition of deciding social issues by vote. Washington State passed abortion rights before Roe v. Wade and affirmed it at the ballot box later.

Our constitutional system is founded on democracy: the will of the people, not the unchecked rule of judges.